Broad U.S. Terror Alert Mystifies Experts; ‘It’s Crazy Pants,’ One Says -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials insisted Tuesday that extraordinary security measures for nearly two dozen diplomatic posts were to thwart an “immediate, specific threat,” a claim questioned by counterterrorism experts, who note that the alert covers an incongruous set of nations from the Middle East to an island off the southern coast of Africa.
Analysts don’t dispute the Obama administration’s narrative that it’s gleaned intelligence on a plot involving al Qaida’s most active affiliate, the Yemen-based Arabian Peninsula branch. That would explain why most U.S. posts in the Persian Gulf are on lockdown, including the U.S. embassy in Yemen, which on Tuesday airlifted most of its personnel to Germany in an “ordered departure,” the government’s euphemism for an evacuation.
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My Comment: I am giving the administration the benefit of the doubt that the administration had to declare this terror alert. But on the other-hand I am wondering why they are leaking all of this detail information, and closing diplomatic posts as far afield as Mauritius or Madagascar while opening up diplomatic posts in hotspots like Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Update: The Colbert Report sums it up best. (Prepare for a good laugh).
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