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 Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:54 pm Post subject: US ambassador: Al-Qaeda plots another 9/11 from Afghanistan |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9177408/Al-Qaeda-pl otting-another-911-from-Afghanistan.html
Al-Qaeda 'plotting another 9/11’ from Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda fighters have returned to Afghanistan and will use the country as a base to launch September 11-style attacks on Western cities, according to the American ambassador to Kabul.
by Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2012
Ryan Crocker told The Daily Telegraph that if the West was to leave Afghanistan too early, al-Qaeda would be able to increase its presence.
With the US preparing to withdraw the majority of its combat forces from Afghanistan next year, Mr Crocker warned: “If we decide we’re tired, they’ll be back.
“Al-Qaeda is still present in Afghanistan. If the West decides that 10 years in Afghanistan is too long then they will be back, and the next time it will not be New York or Washington, it will be another big Western city.”
Mr Crocker, 62, who previously served as ambassador to Iraq, said that while progress had been made, Afghanistan would need Western support for years to come.
Nato officials believe that up to 100 al-Qaeda fighters have returned to the country, based mainly in the Kunar and Nuristan provinces near the border with Pakistan. Hundreds more are based in Pakistan and could return if circumstances were to change.
Following the shootings in Toulouse this month by an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman, British intelligence officials believe the group is planning a wave of attacks against Western targets, including the London Olympics.
Mr Crocker, who took up his post in Kabul last year, said al-Qaeda remained a potent threat despite suffering setbacks. “We have killed all the slow and stupid ones. But that means the ones that are left are totally dedicated,” he said.
“We think we’ve won a campaign before our adversaries have even started to fight. They have patience, and they know that we are short on that.”
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:28 pm Post subject: US: Withdrawal from Afghanistan would set stage for 2nd 9/11 |
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http://911blogger.com/news/2012-04-16/us-ambassador-withdrawal-afghani stan-would-set-stage-another-911
US ambassador: Withdrawal from Afghanistan would set the stage for another 9/11
[propaganda alert]
by Cem Ertür
16 April 2012
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/15/sotu.01.html
excerpts from: State of the Union with Candy Crowley
[Aired on CNN, April 15, 2012]
CNN.com, 15 April 2012
| Quote: | CROWLEY: As we reported earlier, there have been a series of explosions across Afghanistan, particularly in Kabul. We want to go now on the phone now with me, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker. [...]
CROCKER: [...] [A]s you can imagine, in a situation of multiple attacks, it can be a little bit confusing out there. But what we are hearing from the Afghans is that they have been successful in killing and capturing the terrorists who have perpetrated these attacks while suffering relatively few casualties of their own. I think they have acquitted themselves very, very well, very professionally. And it has been all Afghan security forces, not international forces. [...]
CROWLEY: Mr. Ambassador, one final question and that is, you and I have spoken before about the feeling in the U.S. that we need to end this war more quickly than the president currently has in mind. [...] What is your response to what I'm certain will be a feeling like, here's just more proof that we need to get out of there?
CROCKER: Candy, I see it in exactly the opposite way. Attacks like this demonstrate why we need to be here. Again, we have seen a very professional performance by Afghan security forces. They are able to deal with events like this on their own. A clear sign of progress. And, you know, that's how we do get out responsibly as they take over. But it also shows there's a very dangerous enemy out there with capabilities and with safe havens in Pakistan. To get out before the Afghans have a full grip on security, which is a couple of years out, would be to invite the Taliban, Haqqani, and al Qaeda back in and set the stage for another 9/11. And that, I think, is an unacceptable risk for any American. |
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related link:
Multiple coordinated blasts rock diplomatic enclave in Afghan capital
Press TV, 15 April 2012
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/236338.html
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from the archives:
Al-Qaeda 'plotting another 9/11' from Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda fighters have returned to Afghanistan and will use the country as a base to launch September 11-style attacks on Western cities, according to the American ambassador to Kabul.
by Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9177408/Al-Qaeda-pl otting-another-911-from-Afghanistan.html
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