Terror alerts

According to the Washington Times, Judicial Watch has uncovered a government bulletin warning about an attempted incursion by jihadists on our southern border;

“High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued,” the statement read. “Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.”

High-level sources in the intelligence community told the nonprofit organization that one of the terrorist groups operating out of Ciudad Juarez is the Islamic State…

In another Washington Times story, they report that the UK has elevated it’s terrorism threat level to “severe”. Prime Minister David Cameron told his country;

The [current] terrorist threat was not created by the Iraq War … it existed even before the horrific attacks on 9/11,” he said. “It cannot be solved by addressing poverty, or dictatorships or instability in the region. The root cause is quite clear: a poisonous ideology of Islamic extremism that is condemned by all … [and that will] force people to live in a Medieval state” that includes beheadings, the enslavement of people, the rape of women.

Meanwhile, we read in Stars & Stripes that Defense Secretary Chuck Obvious is traveling to Turkey to try to build a coalition against ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State, you know, about eight months after the ISIS took Fallujah from the Iraq government.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will visit Turkey as the U.S. government tries to build a “coalition of the willing” take on Islamic militants in Syria, the Pentagon announced Friday.

“Turkey is a key NATO ally. And given its border with Syria and Iraq, they share our deep concerns with … the regional threat posed by ISIL,” Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.

Secretary Obvious cancelled a trip to Turkey the same month that Fallujah fell, by the way;

Had the scheduled meeting happened, Hagel’s visit would have been the highest-level encounter between the two countries since Turkey was shaken by a massive internal political earthquake that also impacted Washington-Ankara relations. Turkey’s decision to purchase a Chinese anti-ballistic missile defense system and the danger posed by al-Qaeda in Syria were expected to dominate Hagel’s meetings with his Turkish interlocutors.

Well, better really, really, really, really late than never, right?

Oh, by the way the Colorado Springs Gazette reports that the Air Force Academy was listed as a target on an al Qaeda website – you know because they’re all about terror and not about doing anything strategic.

The president told the world that we have no strategy yet, I seriously don’t believe him because no one is that stupid. I think he’s trying to trick the Republicans into making a big deal about the line, you know, like they’re making a big deal about his wardrobe when he made the statement. But, see, I’m hoping this big trick on Republicans will actually restore a measure of national security as well as be a political trap. I’m hoping that he really has big grand plan that will result in lots of splodies and splattered terrorists, because like I said, no one is so stupid as to not have a strategy. No one. I’m hoping.

Category: Terror War