Qaeda Messages Prompt U.S. Terror Warning - NYTimes.com:
The United States intercepted electronic communications this week among senior operatives of Al Qaeda, in which the terrorists discussed attacks against American interests in the Middle East and North Africa, American officials said Friday.
The intercepts and a subsequent analysis of them by American intelligence agencies prompted the United States to issue an unusual global travel alert to American citizens on Friday, warning of the potential for terrorist attacks by operatives of Al Qaeda and their associates beginning Sunday through the end of August.The possible attack warning may be legitimate but this (from the same article) may be the real reason for the warning.
"Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.’s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better."Nothing would bolster the NSA's right to snoop better than catching a terrorist plot.
The timing here is impeccable.
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