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Obama Admin’s Declaration that Al Qaeda is no Longer a Threat to the US Causes US Intelligence Officials to Revolt

Tim Brown 1 hour ago
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This should come as no surprise from an administration that sets up Muslim Brotherhood members in top positions in the federal government, aids the avowed enemies of the US, and has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Members of the Obama administration, including National Security Adviser Susan Rice and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough apparently met with senators from both sides of the aisle late Tuesday. According to several of those senators, the meeting was focused on foreign policy and was supposed to be secret, but Yahoo News received comment from some of those senators.
Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, alluded to the meeting on Wednesday, as the panel held a hearing on whether and how to overhaul the signature law of the global war on terrorism.

"I know we both attended sort of a discussion last night that I found to be one of the most bizarre I've attended on Foreign Relations on foreign policy in our country," Corker said at one point, referring to himself and Sen. Bob Menendez (D.-New Jersey), the committee's chairman.

"I know several of us were involved in a very bizarre discussion last night. This continues a very bizarre discussion," Corker said at another point.

The Tennessee Republican did not say where or with whom the meeting took place (or why it was bizarre).

The White House later confirmed the meeting. National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said McDonough hosted "an informal discussion on national security issues," and that Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken attended.

Now, consider that this is the administration really has no desire to hurt their fellow Muslim jihadists in the least. In fact, McDonough was intimately involved in the Benghazi coverup.
However, in one of the most curious places for the truth to come out, The Daily Beast reported:
…the White House has softened its earlier position, concluding that al Qaeda and its affiliates still represented a serious threat. But the tension between the White House and many top military and intelligence officials fighting the long war remain.

In interviews with many of them, a common theme is sounded: The threat from al Qaeda is rising, but the White House is looking to ratchet down the war against these Islamic extremists. As a result, intelligence gathered on these threats remain shrouded from the public and, in many cases, from senior government officials. And now Congress and the White House are beginning to consider modifying—and possibly revoking—the very authority to find, fix and finish those terrorists who pose the threat today.

Now, clearly we are not talking "Islamic extremists," but rather we are speaking of devout Muslims who are simply following the Qur'an, just as the founder of Islam did when he formed the political ideology. Also, keep in mind that it was the Obama administration that was claiming that al-Qaeda was on the run and that Osama bin Laden was dead.
Again, it should come as no surprise seeing we have an administration involved in open treason, in which an impotent Congress will not impeach him.

However, while Congress isn't calling Obama on this issue, many in the intelligence community are. According to The Daily Beast:
One senior U.S. intelligence official told The Daily Beast the frustration was that there is pressure from the White House to downplay the threat from some al Qaeda affiliates. "It comes from the top, it's the message that al Qaeda is all these small franchise groups and they are not coordinated and threatening," this official said. "It's the whole idea of getting us out to place resources against something that they don't think is a problem. It's not their war, it's not our conflict."

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This week, this internal struggle over the response to al Qaeda is reaching a crucial moment. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday will hold a nearly unprecedented hearing on the 2001 law that authorizes a long, global war against al Qaeda and its allies.

At the same time, U.S. intelligence officers say, there is deep division within their ranks–and with the White House—about the strength of al Qaeda in the place where that war began: Afghanistan. The current estimate of the terror group's presence there says that al Qaeda has a little more than 100 fighters in the country's province of Kunar. That, these intelligence officers contend, is wildly out of date. "Al Qaeda has a presence all over Afghanistan today," a senior U.S. intelligence official told The Daily Beast. "This is the conversation that no one wants to have. What are they going to do after 2014 when most of our troops will be gone?"

"It comes from the top, it's the message that al Qaeda is all these small franchise groups and they are not coordinated and threatening. It's not their war, it's not our conflict."

Take a moment and consider that this administration's former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, failed to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist group. They have also failed to call the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, even when Egypt did so. They have claimed Al-Qaeda is on the run, yet covered up the fact that jihadists tied to Al-Qaeda were the very ones who attacked Americans in Benghazi. Why did they cover it up? I believe part of the reason was that Obama and Joe Biden were proudly declaring Al-Qaeda was on the run.
However, as one senior U.S. intelligence official said, "Take this 'al Qaeda is on the run' message, it's something you've seen in the last couple of years. If they are on the run, they are on the run to the United States."
Pamela Geller summed up exactly what is taking place concerning the Obama administration's willful ignorance of what Islam and jihadists are engaging in and who will feel the brunt of what they are doing. She wrote, "As the global jihad rages across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, Obama continues to indulge his ROP fantasies to our great peril."
At least there are still some who recognize the threat and are willing to stand up and be counted.

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Muslim Brotherhood Caught Trafficking Terrorists - Obama Still Refuses To Call Them Terrorists

Walid Shoebat 3 hours ago
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Obama refuses to identify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, while the same jihadist organization is currently and continuously participating in blatant acts of terrorism, to include bomb making.
In a shocking admission, Egyptian General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has claimed that in the days prior to the removal of Mohammed Mursi from power last year, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Deputy Supreme Guide met with him for 45 minutes and levied a very serious threat. Khairat al-Shater told el-Sisi that if Mursi was removed from power, terrorists would be imported from Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan to fight Egyptians.

In an interview with CBC, el-Sisi relayed his response to al-Shater (translated):

“I responded to the threats of al-Shater very clearly. I told him that any man who raises his weapon to face our army will be removed from the face of the earth.”

Notwithstanding the threats to el-Sisi, when al-Shater revealed his intentions, he revealed a strategy that amounts to a carbon copy of what’s going on in Syria today. Foreign terrorists are being imported into that country in an attempt to remove Bashar al-Assad. Had el-Sisi not intervened, the fate of Egypt would be much worse today.
To further bolster el-Sisi’s claims, Shoebat.com obtained from Middle Eastern sources the case of a terrorist recently arrested in Egypt which was never told in western media. According to reports, this terrorist – Wael A. A. – was arrested in Egypt and is accused of fighting jihad in Syria before traveling to Egypt where he was to carry out terrorist operations. Under questioning, Wael is said to have explained that he went to Syria two years ago through Turkey.
It was reported further that he – and others like him – were paid salaries via the Muslim Brotherhood, after he left for Syria two years ago.
In an Arabic news report, it was revealed that al-Shater’s official driver was implicated in a terrorist attack (translated):

“One child was killed and two were injured as an explosion resulting from a bomb being manufactured in the house of Khairat al-Shater’s private driver, Walid Iz Al-Rijal Kzizieyeh. A relative of the driver was killed in the explosion.”

In this video (at the :30 mark), you can view the aftermath of the explosion:



At this point, it’s worth referencing EXHIBIT B and Addendum T of our “Ironclad” Report again, which makes the case that Egypt was involved in those attacks. Addendum T concerns evidence that under the Mursi regime, al-Shater was involved in trafficking weapons between Sudan, Libya, and Syria, EXHIBIT B is a one-page Libyan intelligence document that details the arrest of several Egyptians in connection with the Benghazi attack. The case of Wael A.A. further bolsters that Exhibit because both point to terrorist trafficking.

EXHIBIT B of “Ironclad” Report.

Turkey remains a key nation state. It was Turkey’s Consul General Ali Sait Akin who met with Ambassador Christopher Stevens about one hour before the Ambassador’s death. The Egyptian connection to Benghazi, al-Shater’s efforts to export terrorists and weapons, and Turkey’s palpable interest in reinstating the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt make the Benghazi attacks more relevant.
Despite, all of these revelations about the Muslim Brotherhood’s support for terrorism in Egypt and elsewhere, the Obama administration has been in support of releasing Muslim Brotherhood figures. Here is State Department spokesman Jen Psaki in the days after Mursi’s removal, calling for his release as well as other Brotherhood leaders who were victims of ‘politically motivated’ arrests (beginning to the 1:15 mark):



Since Mursi’s removal, Turkey has been working aggressively behind the scenes to reinstate the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as Shoebat.com has reported. While al-Shater is in prison, the Turkish government has been doing its best to carry out his threats. As Shoebat.com reported reported last year, Turkey’s ambassador to Egypt was reportedly expelled from the host country for “interference” in Egyptian affairs.
Shoebat.com has also reported on the great lengths Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is willing to go in terms of propaganda campaigns designed to generate outrage among its people. The expectation is that Turkey will bring the Muslim Brotherhood back in Egypt, with fury.
Earlier this month it was revealed that army drills between Russia and Egypt were set to begin after a Russian delegation met with Egyptian military officials. While reports are focused on the U.S. losing influence in Egypt while Russia is gaining influence, the under-reported story is the Obama administration’s strengthening alliance with Turkey, which seeks to vigorously do all it can to put the Muslim Brotherhood back in power in Egypt.
That is something the Obama administration appears to want as well.

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Ben Barrack contributed to this article.

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