Breaking news from Fox
Senior U.S. officials are concerned over recent intelligence indicating that the Pakistani Taliban, which orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing, may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States to launch a second attack, sources tell Fox News. Authorities, however, know very little about the potential operative or any possible plot.
“[We] don’t know who it is and don’t know where it is,” one source said. “We know the guy’s here, but don’t know anything about him.”
Based on the intelligence, authorities believe the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, would have directed the individual to attempt another Times Square-style operation, but not necessarily in New York City.
A senior intelligence official said the threat stream’s lack of specificity makes it nearly impossible for the counterterrorism community to defend against such an attack. Any possible threat, however, does not seem to be imminent, with a senior counterterrorism official saying he was “unaware” of any “imminent threats” against the U.S. homeland.
Were I a loony tunes conspiracy minded leftist, I might wonder if this was simply designed to scare the People right before the mid-term elections. In other words, question the timing. In the real world, these Islamist wackjobs have their own time tables, and do want to kill Americans and, yes, cause terror. Interesting that they want to keep hitting such a liberal city.
But, OK, lefties, let’s play the PDB game. Here we have a warning. We don’t know who, what, or when. We know the sorta where, New York City. Big place. OK, now what? What do you do? If we go by your wacky August 6th PDB rhetoric, Obama should have every bit of knowledge to stop this attack.
(BTW, I won’t blame Obama if it does happen. This country’s openness, one of the things that makes us so great, makes us ripe to be easily attacked.)
