Humint Events Online: Here We Go Again-- Intel Agencies "Knew" of the Bombing Plot, But Failed to "Connect the Dots"

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Here We Go Again-- Intel Agencies "Knew" of the Bombing Plot, But Failed to "Connect the Dots"

The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack, but American spy agencies later failed to combine the intercepts with other information that might have disrupted last week’s attempted airline bombing.

The electronic intercepts were translated and disseminated across classified computer networks, government officials said on Wednesday, but analysts at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington did not synthesize the eavesdropping intelligence with information gathered in November when the father of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now accused of the attempted bombing, visited the United States Embassy in Nigeria to express concerns about his son’s radicalization.

The father, a wealthy Nigerian businessman named Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, had urgently sought help from American and Nigerian security officials when cellphone text messages from his son revealed that he was in Yemen and had become a fervent radical.

A family cousin quoted the father as warning officials from the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency in Nigeria: “Look at the texts he’s sending. He’s a security threat.”


The father of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab talked about his son's extremist views with someone from the CIA and a report was prepared, but the report was not circulated outside the agency, a reliable source told CNN's Jeanne Meserve on Tuesday.
So-- HOW LONG ARE PEOPLE GOING TO PUT UP WITH THIS BULLSHIT AND NOT SEE WHAT IT GOING ON? AND REALLY, JUST *FUCK* THE IDIOT/ASSHOLE POLITICIANS (MOSTLY RETHUG SLIME), MAKING THIS A PARTISAN ISSUE WHEN IT IS SO MUCH DEEPER AND THEY SHOULD KNOW (AND PROBABLY DO KNOW) BETTER.

1 Comments:

Blogger nickname said...

The entire plot was hatched by
intelligence services operatives.

Isn't it OBVIOUS?

10:06 AM  

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