US issues travel alert, will close embassies due to al Qaeda threat

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/02/politics/us-embassies-close/index.html

by boatontheocean • 13 years ago

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ferdo6• 13 years ago

The US government is going to attack itself again and blame "terrorism".

krapp• 13 years ago

When did the US government attack itself before and blame terrorism?

ferdo6• 13 years ago

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is a prime example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#Distort...

aimatt• 13 years ago

Funny how Snowden gets asylum in Russia and the next day Al Qaida becomes pertinent again. Smells fishy.

AsymetricCom• 13 years ago

I think it's more likely something actually happened yesturday and retroactive action is somehow considered not a waste of effort.

CrazedGeek• 13 years ago

Well, Al Qaeda was a tad pertinent last week, but the news was drowned out by a woman having a baby and a man having pictures of his penis published online.

http://www.businessinsider.com/recent-prison-breaks-are-fuel...

mrt0mat0• 13 years ago

How did they get this information about the attack? According to the NSA, the leaking of confidential data to the World last month allowed terrorists to avoid their spying techniques. Apparently it wasn't as big of a hit as they portrayed. shocking.

chiph• 13 years ago

This may be a legitimate threat, but the loss of trust caused by the NSA debacle means that someone is likely to ignore it.

US issues travel alert, will close embassies due to al Qaeda threat

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