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Qaeda can't launch 9/11-type attack: Panetta

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Posted by Fred 2012-01-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Does that mean we can shut down the TSA?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2012-01-22 00:14|| 2012-01-22 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Unfortunately, I think Leon is being premature.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-22 02:27|| 2012-01-22 02:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Leon is indulging in a wishful thinking. In any case, if AQ can't, Hizbully or Mooselimb Bruderbund can.

Posted by Twobyfour 2012-01-22 07:21|| 2012-01-22 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 If AQ was just a cut-out for the Pakistani government, don't they have sufficient command and control?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-01-22 10:02|| 2012-01-22 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Any of the groups controlled by the ISI can be trained and equipped to do such a thing. Al Qaeda is not the be-all and end-all.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-01-22 10:11|| 2012-01-22 10:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Personal opinion: Panetta is only slighty less worthless than a bent sh!tcan. Nothing more than a Democrap echo chamber.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2012-01-22 10:22|| 2012-01-22 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 If nobody does, He's a winner because he called it.
If somebody else does, he's a winner because he's talking about ALQ not unnamed agencies.
If ALQ does, well, he's positioned to have had a 66.6% likelyhood of being correct.

Posted by Skidmark 2012-01-22 10:38|| 2012-01-22 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 His gloating here is unseemly but then democrats have no shame about anything.

Consider also that he almost certainly was involved in Clinton's (Bill's) missed opportunity at killing Bin Laden.

See: href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2011/05/05/bin-laden-lived-to-fight-another-day-thanks-to-bill-clinton/">

Posted by Black Bart Pelosi9180 2012-01-22 11:49|| 2012-01-22 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Panetta seems overconfident. I wouldn't think that it would be hard to infiltrate our border and conduct a campaign of random IED attacks. Demonstrably, the Iranians have the ability to conduct assassinations in our country.

I would think that the factoring hindering many of these attacks is not our omniscience, but rather the general worldwide belief that we are willing to go anywhere to kill those responsible and whack any immediate relations that are sleeping in the same house. The idea that the US is a Paper Tiger was ended in Fallujah in house to house fighting.

Posted by Super Hose 2012-01-22 13:55|| 2012-01-22 13:55|| Front Page Top

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