al Qaeda warns of reprisals for snatch operation
The Associated Press reports that some of the bands of outlaws roaming Libya these days are pretty upset that their boy, Abu Anas al-Libi was grabbed in front of his home in Tripoli the other day by some Delta fellows and they’re promising to strike back.
“We only fear God,” Abu Khattala told AP by telephone from Benghazi, when asked if he is concerned he too could be snatched. Abu Khattala lives openly in the city, despite the indictment against him in a U.S. court over the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. He denies any role in the attack.
One prominent ultraconservative Muslim cleric, Sheik Ahmed bu-Sidra, warned that “all options are on the table” after the seizing of al-Libi, who was spirited out of the country and is now being held on a U.S. warship, according to American officials.
Moderates will be unable to silence possible retaliation by “insane Libyans who think death is a way to get close to God,” bu-Sidra said.
So what are they going to do? Burn down an embassy and kill the US ambassador? Another president might say “bring it on”!
By the way, McClatchy wants you to know that “President Barack Obama personally approved [the] daring raid” – which is just like going on the raid himself, I suppose.
Category: Terror War
I am sure the Delta boys are just shaking in their boots now that camel shit smokers are all pissed off at them. More targets to send to Allah.
Terrorist says, “we only fear God … ah and … The SEALs … And ah … DELTA … And ah the Navy food at GITMO … Please bring us to the Southern District of NY … The food is better there.”
Yeah jackass we may have the best food, prayer mats and bondage books, but we also have the Flagship JTTF, Fed prosecutors, and juries that are not sympathetic to your twists ways.
So if it is God only … Come to NYC so HE can help facilitate your introduction to Lucifer.
Am I the only one who saw the headline “Snatch Operation” and thought this article would be about “Chelsea” Manning?
Baracka “personally approved the daring raid”? Wow, did they have to pull him away from a card game, off the golf course or wake him up to do so? Why didn’t they just tell the truth and say that Valerie Jarrett approved, and then woke Baracka up to tell him about it?
The ultraconservative cleric, Sheik Ahmed bu-Sidra, warned that “all options are on the table”. Not sure whose side he’s on, but considering he and other ultraconservative Muslims still haven’t denounced the atrocities others to claim to the faith have committed, I’d say that was a veiled threat of some sort.
I don’t trust any of those motherfuckers. Not one.
Just got back. It was an exciting raid. Just FYI all of the dolphin-fish made it through just fine.
I miss the days when the US would have secret missions and then not broadcast them for the whole world to see
@ 4. Wrong!
It was a game of “hoops” with his “peeps”!
@8.
Cross posted from an “Open Thread” a week or so back. Fits well with your basketball analogy.
“I learned today in class that the reason Obama (The US) won the diplomatic face off with Putin over Syria was that he played basketball.
Yeah, you read it correctly.
It was Obama’s prowess and steadfast studiousness of the game that taught him that you set up pivotal plays several plays in advance. No mention of time outs, though. And he took that experience to the diplomatic, CINC level to bargain our position within a global/peace context.
Basketball.
I pointed out that he was not a collegiate or professional athlete at that sport but it fell on the next question so it became irrelevant.
This individual teaching has a PhD from Berkeley.
Yeah.
I had to sit there and deal with it. But I was polite.
I will be drinking tonight; heavily.
Just so you know I am a moderate Democrat. But this takes the fucking cake.
Now you guys see what I have to deal with up here in the Great NW.
Out. The ‘Shine is calling….”
Imagine what would have happened if no one claimed the operation, and everyone was left to wonder who had “done it.” Imagine if rumors started that it was an AQ rival or that Zawahari himself had ordered it, due to minor indiscretions. Or that the French had grown a pair.
Perhaps, then, all those locations and people al-Libi gives up wouldn’t be moved. Perhaps, it could have led to a whole series of similar operations, including one on Abu Khattala, in Libya, again.
It is so much better that instead, we know that the top politician personally approved a raid by the most silent of professionals who dared risk their lives while the politician slept comfortably in a big mansion, behind multiple layers of security, with 50 helicopters and two jumbo jets awaiting his beck and call.
First thought: And when do they actually need an excuse other than we are still breathing?
Second thought: So he approved it, but how many years ago did someone ask for his approval? Because, like, he does so many, like, important things without, like, careful, uhm, consideration and a sticky political situation needing a heavy duty distraction. This shutdown mess he created is so bad that he needed a twofer?
Gen Anus…er Amos has fired the Delta Force & Team Six.
@10, TN, you’re on it. I thought the same.
Reminds me of RangerUp’s veteran’s inner monologue video.
“You’re a veteran? that’s cool because my uncle Barry ordered SEALs to kill Bin Laden.”
He Obama brother must not have recieved their tribute this month. At this stage he might as well authorize raids because he’s failed at everything else and even if it did end up with dead Americans its not like it’s the first time. At this point what does it matter……
Obama’s contribution to the Arab Spring uprising in Libya has turned it into another Somalia.
I’d rather see us using a retaliatory approach to these sorts of threats.
For every American that is killed, we will randomly pick a mosque somewhere in a muslim nation and destroy it during Friday prayers.
Do that a few times and these folks might come to an understanding about the folly of their logic.
AW1 Tim – how about the “Wheel of Misfortune”? Change the names of all the segments to the cities with the largest Moslem populations world wide… since Islam refuses to take out their trash, next time there is a ‘significant event’ we spin the wheel. Wherever the pointer lands, we go… first few times we take out the biggest mosque (wouldn’t it be interesting if Mecca came up? Hmm….) then we start with small nukes, working our way up. I don’t think we’ll get past a megaton before the world Islamic community will freakin’ DELIVER their bad boys.