Terror Alert was a hoax.

jackiebaron

As I suspected the "terror" alert issued at the beginning of the week was simply another hoax dreamt up to distract people from the mayhem in Pakistan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/07/barack-obama-terror-threat-claims

Mark200

The US don't need to raise the terror alert to warrant more drone attacks... no one really pays attention to those attacks anymore.

Also, just the other day the US criticised Pakistani anti-terror efforts... it's hardly shocking that Pakistan have come out within days to criticise America.

AnonoBoy

There's mayhem in Pakistan?

Be the hokies! I hadn't noticed with all this terror I've been alerted to.

wes

Mark200 wrote: »

The US don't need to raise the terror alert to warrant more drone attacks... no one really pays attention to those attacks anymore.

Also, just the other day the US criticised Pakistani anti-terror efforts... it's hardly shocking that Pakistan have come out within days to criticise America.

Well if you read the article, it isn't just Pakistan that is criticising the US, but various inteligence people, who are saying there was no immediate threat.

Celly Smunt

i don't care?

Bottle_of_Smoke

Rather amusing American and British politicians regularly refer to insurgents and separatists around the world as cowards when they use remote control aeroplanes to fire missiles at their own targets.

Hazys

Keep fear alive!

dsmythy

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

Rather amusing American and British politicians regularly refer to insurgents and separatists around the world as cowards when they use remote control aeroplanes to fire missiles at their own targets.

That's why the world's their bitch.

Mark200

wes wrote: »

Well if you read the article, it isn't just Pakistan that is criticising the US, but various inteligence people, who are saying there was no immediate threat.

I did read it. The backbone of the story is based on quotes from Pakistani officials. There are 23 'paragraphs' in the article, and the only paragraphs that contain quotes from European officials are the following:

Dismissing claims of a developed, co-ordinated plot aimed at Britain, France and Germany, European intelligence officials also pointed the finger at the US, and specifically at the White House. "To stitch together [the terror plot claims] in a seamless narrative is nonsensical," said one well-placed official.

The officials did not deny the men, and other foreign-born jihadi recruits who travel to the tribal areas for indoctrination and training, represented a potentially serious threat. "You have discussions about all sorts of things – that does not necessarily mean there is anything concrete. It is not easy to set up groups," said one counter-terrorism official.

They said Washington was the "driver" behind claims about a series of "commando-style" plots and that the CIA – perhaps because it was worried about provoking unwelcome attention to its drone strikes – was also extremely annoyed by the publicity given to them.

Thomas de Maizière, Germany's interior minister, publicly expressed his scepticism about the US terror warning, saying he saw no sign of an imminent attack on Germany. He described the danger to Germany as "hypothetical".

The second last paragraph containing just two words that were obviously used descriptively, and quite possibly in their original context may not have been criticisms in any way.

If you strip away all the talk from the Pakistanis, there's nothing even newsworthy in there.