Al Q Op
By John Batchelor on December 30, 2009 at 1:30 AM in Current Affairs
Notes and perspectives from guests and discussion on my syndicated radio program, December 29, 2009:
Meanwhile POTUS has delayed his statement until today. The explanation from the White House message team is that POTUS believed that any immediate comment would elevate the status of the attack and invite copycats.
This spin is bottomlessly uninformed and the product of a political brain trust that does not heed what we have learned after two decades at war with Al Q and its state sponsors.
In war, the first three reports are wrong. Therefore the White House is wise to assume the very worst about the incident and to respond gravely. POTUS was silent.
Also, B Raman reasoned to me Sunday 27 that it is wise to assume that all terror attacks launched against the US homeland are authored and directed by the Al Q high command now camped in North Waziristan.
This was an Al Q attack on the US national security on Christmas Day over the city that has more Moslems than any other in the USA. In a plane loaded with tourists and Americans on holiday adventures, therefore maximizing the terror multiple worldwide.
Also, they used the conduit of one of the best airports in the EU, making clear that nothing that has been constructed since 9/11 could prevent the bomb and bomber getting to the delivery point.
Al Q has a literary streak. Neat, cunning, bloody-minded package for the holidays.
POTUS statement late in the day was painted by his usual passive and vague language, as if he is faking a brief to a client:
Memo to POTUS, you are trying to kill Al Q in North Wazristan, and that crowd just tried to splash people all over Detroit. The important names are Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri, not “those.”
Once the bomber had the entry point in hand, he was then moved to Yemen for training (indoctrination, preaching).
The date chosen for the attack was the final element of many steps and many people preparing the way. The scouting with videotaping, the intelligence gathering, the bomb builder, the and the facts so far point to a decision to launch prior to December 24.
It is not far-fetched to reason that the strike has a follow-on operation with a completely different team.
There is reporting that two of the Al Q ops who handled Abdulmutallab in Yemen were released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 where they were entered into an art therapy session for rehabilitation and were then released. (You cannot make this stuff up.)
