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BREAKING: New Iraq National Intelligence Estimate Released

thinkprogress.org — One of its main conclusions: al-Qa’ida will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI), its most visible and capable affiliate and the only one known to have expressed a desire to attack the Homeland.

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  • dagnabbit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17I really wish they'd stop referring to America as the "Homeland". It's kind of creepy.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6That's obviously impossible, since Bush said we're fighting them over *there* so we wouldn't have to fight them *here*.

    /Sarcasm
  • VeryBoredNow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I can just see this pipmple-faced dork spitting out his chocolate milk through his nose yelling "BRREEAKINGGG!!!" Then it took him a few times to spell it out because of the excitement of posting BRESALAKAAAKKAKINN!!!GG news


    Man Law rule #22
    Attention Whores deserve a thourough stomping.
  • byronm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Does it matter anyway? The world is too big to think we can kill the symptoms when we should be looking at fixing the problem.

    Bush is the problem because his mentality is to feed the sharks and keep them hungry for more. You take away the incentives for terrorists to attack and they're defeated. Right now terrorists are like the holy grail of terror and can wreak havoc at will. A Real prez would stand up and take some ballsy action of how Americans are proud people and won't succumb to terror.

    Instead he's made us weak, fearful and most disgustingly of all hateful of our very own government.
  • malfourmed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You're right. We should call it the "Fatherland" instead. ;-)

    Here's another worrying quote from the report:

    "We assess [Al-Qa’ida] has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability, including: a safehaven in the Pakistan Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), operational lieutenants, and its top leadership."

    Note also that the report distinguishes between Al Qaeda and "Al Qaeda in Iraq", which it labels "AQI". The two organisations are not the same.
  • Albionshores, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The newly named "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" is only responsible for 3% of insurgency attacks within Iraq. - as reported by CNN Correspondent in Baghdad, Michael Ware on 360.

    Michael also went on to say that the surge was only successful in creating new extremists. The new Washington line of calling everything in Iraq Al-Qaeda is spin, spin, spin.
  • vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Direct link to the National Intelligence Estimate "Key Judgments":
    http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20070717_release.pdf
    via http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/press_releases.htm - July 17, 2007
  • ThinkBox, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3Buried for Breaking.

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