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US issues travel alert, will close embassies due to al Qaeda threat

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Funny how Snowden gets asylum in Russia and the next day Al Qaida becomes pertinent again. Smells fishy.

I think it's more likely something actually happened yesturday and retroactive action is somehow considered not a waste of effort.

Well, Al Qaeda was a tad pertinent last week, but the news was drowned out by a woman having a baby and a man having pictures of his penis published online.

http://www.businessinsider.com/recent-prison-breaks-are-fuel...

How did they get this information about the attack? According to the NSA, the leaking of confidential data to the World last month allowed terrorists to avoid their spying techniques. Apparently it wasn't as big of a hit as they portrayed. shocking.

The US government is going to attack itself again and blame "terrorism".

When did the US government attack itself before and blame terrorism?

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is a prime example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#Distort...

Jesse Ventura and other conspiracy theorists love quoting Gulf of Tonkin.

Claiming 'False flag' is the new trendy phrase since 9/11 loose changers lost all credibility.

> conspiracy theorists

The Gulf of Tonkin being used as a lie to manipulate Americans into the Viet Nam War is historical fact, not a "theory".

Yes I said mentioned by theorists. Used as justification for modern theories such as the one you just posited.

I agree with the general sentiment of military industrial complex promoting fear to boost their own budgets. That's a natural self-interest like all power structures financed by public influence. But I doubt it's a direct collusion by agencies to deceive the public. I have a feeling they believe their own bullshit.

It's easy for humans to justify incorrect things to themselves, ala confirmation biases. Very similar to why conspiracy theories spread.

> I have a feeling they believe their own bullshit.

Some of them do believe their own bullshit. They're not any less of a threat to us than the ones that don't believe the BS but are down with the program because they're getting paid.

Sorry, but people who are skeptical of state justifications for militarism are by definition less of a threat to peace than those who support imperialist policies.

I think one of us is misunderstanding the other's position.

I don't understand the equivalence. People who are opposed to violence are less harmful than people who are not, regardless of how "crazy" you consider their beliefs.

If one is opposed to violence but still depending on a livelihood from an organization that depends on violence to realize its goals - be it a gang, a government or a military - then one might not be as opposed to violence as is thought.

I see. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Obviously we were attacked for our freedoms.

This may be a legitimate threat, but the loss of trust caused by the NSA debacle means that someone is likely to ignore it.

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