Iraq: Al Qaeda Planning Holiday Attacks in West

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Associated Press

Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks in the United States and Europe during the Christmas season, two senior officials said Wednesday.

Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told The Associated Press that the botched bombing in central Stockholm last weekend was among the alleged plots the insurgents revealed. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, in a telephone interview from New York, called the claims "a critical threat."

Both al-Bolani and Zebari said Iraq has informed Interpol of the alleged plots, and alerted authorities in the U.S. and European countries of the possible danger. Neither official specified which country or countries in Europe are alleged targets.

There was no way to verify the insurgents' claims. But Western counterterrorism officials generally are on high alert during the holiday season, especially since last year's failed attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/15/world/main7152700.shtml

[Newsjock]

1. Well played, Karl Rove

Well played indeed.

TERRRRRRRR.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. How would that help Republicans now that Obama is in the White House?

[left on green only]

14. Eye on the future

The prime tenet of the philosophy of the right wing repukes is to spread fear and mistrust among all people in our country, while at the same time offering a panacea of right wing control to combat it (such as the relinquishing of our freedoms). They would plant the seeds of fear today, and then reap their harvest in two years time. Haven't you seen it working already, or did you miss the last election? And isn't that also what the right wing Nazis in Germany did during the time leading up to WWII? Will then Karl Rove become our next Adolph Hitler? Or will it be perhaps an embalmed Dick Cheney? Is anyone out there betting on Glen Beck??

[Freddie Stubbs]

18. In the last election, terrorism was pretty much a non-issue

[Arctic Dave]

2. Yaaaaaawn.

Be afraid! Booga booga!

[awoke_in_2003]

7. i just crapped my pants...

:)

[Arctic Dave]

10. Here ya go.

[Bette Noir]

4. Good time not to fly.

[rug]

5. A new twist in the war on Christmas.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. who do these people think they are?...

the "War On Christmas" belongs to us atheists :)

[Nihil]

16. Don't worry ...

... the radical Muslims hate athiests as much as the radical Christians do!

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews athiests.

(with apologies to Tom Lehrer!) :hi:

[jwirr]

6. Another result of torture? Sorry I do not believe it till I see it. We have

no one we can trust anymore.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. So, what further violation...

of our rights must we now swallow to ensure our "safety"? K&R

[sarcasmo]

11. Al-CIA-DUH training a homegrown terrorist perhaps.

[dkofos]

17. I thought that was the FBI's job

[northernlights]

12. time for cavity checks at the airport? nt

[frylock]

13. iraqi authorities have obtained confessions..

that's all i need to read to know this is bullshit.

[saras]

15. Wacko nutjob conspiracy theorists

"There was no way to verify the insurgents' claims."

[cbdo2007]

19. Well, lets just hope they don't kill 3,500 of us like last time.