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Hundreds 100-300 planning attacks similar to crotch bomber.


Posted: Dec 29, 2009

Hundreds of Al Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday.

Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more help from the international community to help train and equip counter-terrorist forces.

His plea came after an Al Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day airliner bomb plot.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, alleged to be behind the attempt to blow up an American-bound aircraft, spent time in Yemen with Al Qaeda and was in the country only days before the failed attack.

Al-Qirbi said: "Of course there are a number of Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen and some of their leaders. We realize this danger.

"They may actually plan attacks like the one we have just had in Detroit. There are maybe hundreds of them — 200, 300."

Al-Qirbi said it was the "responsibility" of countries with strong intelligence capabilities to warn states such as Yemen about the movements of terror suspects.

The United States, Britain and the European Union could do a lot to improve Yemen’s response to militants on its own soil, he added.

"We have to work in a very joint fashion in partnership to combat terrorism," he said. "If we do, the problem will be brought under control.

"There is support, but I must say it is inadequate. We need more training, we have to expand our counter-terrorism units and provide them with equipment and transportation like helicopters."

Abdulmutallab is said to have told U.S. agents that there were more people "just like him" ready to carry out attacks.

An Al Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility on Monday for the failed attempt to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit as President Obama pledged to hunt down the plotters.

Photographs apparently showing the underpants worn by alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and filled with explosives were broadcast by ABC News.

The American government pictures show the singed underwear with a six-inch packet of a high explosive called PETN sewn into the crotch, the network reported.

Abdulmutallab was reported to be carrying about three ounces of PETN, more than one-and-a-half times the amount carried by Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber," in 2001 and enough to blow a hole in the side of an aircraft.

Abdulmutallab’s former tutors at University College London, where he was a student between 2005 and 2008, described him as "well-mannered, quietly spoken, polite and able" and said that he never gave any cause for concern. He was president of the institution’s Islamic society between 2006 and 2007.

Nigerian-born Abdulmutallab is being held at a federal prison in Michigan on a charge of trying to destroy an aircraft.

He apparently wrote of his loneliness and struggle between liberalism and Islamic extremism in a series of postings on Facebook and in Islamic chatrooms, the Washington Post reported.

Click here to read more from the Times of London.

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Hands across the (intelligence community) aisles - NJ

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I've been hearing an old accusation about how the Christmas Day plot managed to get so far. Our intelligence agencies don't work together. They are too busy having peeing contests with each other to effectively share information.

There is little excuse for this macho crap. With the rapid advancement of technology, information sharing should be nearly instantaneous. Egos are getting in the way. Can you imagine if the branches of our armed forces operated like our intelligence agencies? There would be chaos during every military operation.

NJ

I just heard on the CNN news this morning - that Obama

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Obama did not give a speech about this bombing incident until 72 hours later and stated it was an isolated incident just like Napalotano did and then hours later, stated it was not. Obama should have immediately notified CIA and FBI to find out who this bomber is, came from, and who the bomber could possibly be working with and his ties within those 72 hours and instead, Obama started issuing other orders like airport screening, etc. It is not being run right, ESPECIALLY with Napalotano's speech. DO NOT TRUST ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF HER MOUTH. She is not able to handle her job. She was my governor in Arizona. Gee, I wonder why Arizona is in so much debt?

They already knew him - NJ

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What the heck are you talking about? That guy was already on a watch list. He still wasn't stopped from boarding in Europe.

Hopefully this will shake things up with our intelligence communities. It's crucial in these times that we no longer take the same old paths we've followed for decades. It's time to get our act together.

NJ
Well, they did not know that this man had - contact with 2 former Gitmo terrorists.
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Also finding out about 100-300 terrorists ready to attack the United States. This is all coming out as of yesterday and today? After all, Napalotano said it was an isolated incident. Sure, NO WORRIES!!!
Speak up, don't speak up - NJ
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Napolitano was wrong on that one, speaking too soon. And yet there are questions about why nothing was said immediately. The wingnuts have to make up their minds...speak to the people before the facts are known just to placate them or wait until the facts are in? You can't have it both ways.

More disturbing is that you are surprised that the people who did 9/11 are still plotting against us. Did you think they went away when we captured Saddam even though he had nothing to do with them? Could you put the Kool-Aid down please?

NJ
I am most disturbed by the fact that the father - WARNED US Embassy a month ago!.nm
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What are you talking about! - I agree with you!
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More disturbing is that you are surprised that the people who did 9/11 are still plotting against us. Did you think they went away when we captured Saddam even though he had nothing to do with them? Could you put the Kool-Aid down please?

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! Did I say I was surprised they were plotting against us? I agree with you and I have not even touched the Kool-Aid. I do not think Obama is ready to handle any of this. He has absolutely no experience with terrorists and obviously, Napalotano does not either.

O went golfing after he found out about the attempted attack! - GW quit golfing because he thought it was wrong af

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after 911..... - nm
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Good grief, you cannot compare 911 and over 3000....sm - anon
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people killed on American soil to a foiled attempt at bringing down a plane. This is a different age of wireless communication whether at beach house or on the golf course in relative isolation. Another example of the knee-jerk reaction of criticism by the republicans of the president. If he had run back to the airport with sirens screaming to get to the airport and back to DC ASAP, you would have had somethings to say about that too. Your response to everything he does is always negative. Thank goodness most of us clearly see it now and more and more are seeing it every day.
Bad knees - NJ
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Actually, Dubya keep golfing until fall of 2003. There is video evidence. And his claims for why he quit are suspect because he had bad knees at that point.

In other words, he lied. Again.

NJ
OMG! How ridiculous. This looks like a high school - conversation and useless bashing.nm
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You're right, NJ. See link (no pun) inside. (sm) - Nikki
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http://vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1241

But that's impossible! - AzRain

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Obamba said (in 2007 in a radio interview on NPR) that because he had lived in Indonesia and he had a sister who was half-Indonesian, the Muslim world would leave us alone if he was president.

Please provide a link to substantiate this. (sm) - Nikki

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I've searched for it and can't find it.

I've never heard of this before.

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