State Department issues worldwide travel alert for US citizens due to al Qaeda threat

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The Associated Press reported on Friday that the State Department issued a worldwide travel alert for U.S. citizens due to an unspecified al-Qaeda threat. NBC News confirmed the report.

The AP said officials are concerned about a possible attack coming from the Arabian peninsula and possibly occurring in the Middle East and North Africa.

More: State Department issues worldwide travel alert for U.S. citizens due to al-Qaeda threat

Here is the full text of the State Department’s Travel Alert.

UPDATE at 8/2/13 11:02:31 am (by Charles Johnson)

Greenwald mocks the terror threat — but if an attack does actually happen, he’ll then write 2000 words explaining why we deserved it.

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1 b.d.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:02:23am

False Flag because of teh pressure cooker Google raid story getting out!

//

2 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:02:31am

RWNJ forecast:

If nothing happens, Obama was just trying to distract people from the scandals.

If something does happen, Obama didn’t do enough to stop it.

3 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:05:24am

Did Greenwald delete that Tweet?

4 thecommodore  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:06:02am

re: #2 Kragar

RWNJ forecast:

If nothing happens, Obama was just trying to distract people from the scandals.

If something does happen, Obama didn’t do enough to stop it.

If something happens, Obama’s allies in The Muslim Brotherhood like Huma Abedin directed it from The White House.

///

5 Skip Intro  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:06:39am

How did I ever used to get through the day without seeing a Glenn Greenwald Tweet? To think that it was only a few of months ago that I’d never even heard of him.

6 b.d.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:06:52am

re: #4 thecommodore

If something happens, Obama’s allies in The Muslim Brotherhood like Huma Abedin directed it from The White House.

///

This is all a distraction from the real story…….Anthony Wiener.

7 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:08:22am

And the RWNJ talking points are…

8 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:08:28am

WORLD WIDE TRAVEL ALERT IS AN INSIDE JOB MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:09:09am

WHOOP! THERE IT IS.

10 engineer cat  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:09:10am

geez glen what does erosion of 4th amendment rights through domestic surveillance have to do with threats originating in and expected to take place the middle east?

11 thecommodore  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:10:04am

re: #6 b.d.

This is all a distraction from the real story…….Anthony Wiener.

No. Benghazi!

12 wrenchwench  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:10:32am
Greenwald mocks the terror threat — but if an attack does actually happen, he’ll then write 20,000 words explaining why we deserved it.

FTFY.

It’s in the Fjordman style-book.

13 engineer cat  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:10:36am

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

WHOOP! THERE IT IS.

Dems 2002-2008: Bush is manipulating terror alerts for political benefit! 2009-present

bush manipulated the terror alerts in order to justify sending american troops abroad

14 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:10:41am

re: #10 engineer cat

Because all terror alerts are justifications for domesting spying, or something.

15 Ian G.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:11:08am

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

Has Greenwald tweeted anything about how “fire can’t melt steel”, or how building 7’s collapse looked suspicious yet? You know he’s on his way there.

16 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:12:45am

House Republicans Pass 40th Obamacare Repeal Bill

17 thecommodore  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:12:49am

Meanwhile, the House has repealed Obamacare for the 40th time.

True patriots those guys are!


tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

18 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:14:07am

re: #17 thecommodore

At least they’re heading out of town soon. Can’t do much damage that way.

19 darthstar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:14:22am

If an attack does happen, he’ll use it as proof that NSA spying programs don’t work. If it doesn’t, he’ll use it as proof that NSA programs aren’t necessary.

Glenn Greenwald, American Patriot, preparing to profit on American lives.

20 piratedan  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:14:31am

would love to see the number of terror alerts issued by each administration, just for the sake of comparison to know whether I can completely dismiss GG or if this is a stopped clock being right moment.

21 Norbrook  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:14:40am

Unless the terrorists attack someplace where Glenn currently is residing, he’ll come up with a reason why the US deserved it. If it is someplace he’s residing, he’ll scream his head off about how it should have been stopped, and that Obama should invade X country. Only to bitch and moan about the invasion a year later.

22 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:14:46am

re: #17 thecommodore

Meanwhile, the House has repealed Obamacare for the 40th time.

True patriots those guys are!

tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

The GOP has nothing to offer.

Nothing.

23 Ian G.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:15:40am

re: #20 piratedan

would love to see the number of terror alerts issued by each administration, just for the sake of comparison to know whether I can completely dismiss GG or if this is a stopped clock being right moment.

It does seem like there’s far less of this stuff under Obama. Remember the idiocy about using duct tape to ward off chemical weapons attacks circa 2002?

edit: also, there’s nothing in this threat alert about New York or DC being targeted. Embassies are a very different animal than the actual country, not that I’d expect a fanatic like Greenwald to pick up on the subtle difference.

24 piratedan  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:16:47am

re: #22 Kragar

it’d be different if they actually offered an alternative, because then they’d be open to the same scrutiny that the ACA is, but as you say, they have nothing and they’d be happy returning the death panels to their proper place, for medical judgement, your insurance company, for your self preservation, bankruptcy court.

25 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:17:56am

re: #20 piratedan

The thing that bothers me about this is, they just issued the alert. And right away the cry of False Flag goes up. It isn’t that we have to be shaking in our boots, but why not allow some time to transpire before yelling False Flag, give some time before automatically claiming the alert is something nefarious.

26 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:18:11am

re: #24 piratedan

it’d be different if they actually offered an alternative, because then they’d be open to the same scrutiny that the ACA is, but as you say, they hae nothing and they’d be happy returning the death panels to their proper place, for medical judgement, your insurance company, for your self preservation, bankruptcy court.

They can’t even push their own laws because anything they build which sticks to their “principles” is so rat shit insane they can’t even get a majority of their own people to sign off on it.

27 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:19:34am

re: #22 Kragar

Except for the wingnut base, because taking away health coverage from the Other is a feature, not a bug, of teabag politics.

28 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:20:06am

re: #11 thecommodore

No. Benghazi!

NO! It’s BenghaziWeiner!

29 piratedan  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:22:16am

re: #26 Kragar

They can’t even push their own laws because anything they build which sticks to their “principles” is so rat shit insane they can’t even get a majority of their own people to sign off on it.

what’s ironic is that the ACA is ACTUALLY THEIR OWN IDEA, which was championed by Romney as an alternative to what the Clinton’s were pushing as an alternative to single payer. Since it’s now been abducted by the Kenyan Usurper, they’ve disavowed any knowledge of the child as they’ve slipped into total derangement. The fact that nary a “sane Republican” has actually acknowledged this is extremely disheartening because that means any former moderates that used to exist in the party have been completely co-opted by the politcal ideologues and the political wing of the Birchers, which has manifested themselves as the Tea Party caucus.

30 erik_t  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:22:57am

Your neutralness, it’s a beige alert!

31 erik_t  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:24:40am

If I don’t make it out of Sheremetyevo, tell my wife I said “hello”.

32 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:25:54am

re: #31 erik_t

If I don’t make it out of Sheremetyevo, tell my wife I said “hello”.

“When I found out my wife died, I nearly wasn’t able to finish lunch.”

33 makeitstop  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:27:38am

re: #20 piratedan

would love to see the number of terror alerts issued by each administration, just for the sake of comparison to know whether I can completely dismiss GG or if this is a stopped clock being right moment.

I was just going to say that.

How many terror alerts has the O administration issued since 2008? I sure don’t remember too many.

During the Bush years it seemed like we got one every couple of weeks.

34 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:29:10am
35 b.d.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:30:21am

re: #33 makeitstop

I was just going to say that.

How many terror alerts has the O administration issued since 2008? I sure don’t remember too many.

During the Bush years it seemed like we got one every couple of weeks.

And this is for Embassys in a certain region, not exactly the panic inducing, could be anywhere attacks, vague boogeyman threats of years past.

36 geoffm33  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:33:20am

re: #34 Gus

37 jaunte  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:33:47am

re: #34 Gus

Obama’s Twitter legions

Well that’s what you might call a tell.

38 wrenchwench  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:34:16am

re: #34 Gus

[Embedded content]

I only see Greenwald minions tweeting him there.

39 jaunte  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:35:00am

re: #38 Obama’s Twitter Legions

Fast work, Legions!

40 wrenchwench  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:36:39am

Michele Catalano has about four times as many followers as Greenwald. (Not that that means anything, says the one with 85 followers.)

41 Dr. Matt  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:38:41am

re: #40 Obama’s Twitter Legions

Michele Catalano has about four times as many followers as Greenwald. (Not that that means anything, says the one with 85 followers.)

86

:)

42 lawhawk  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:39:45am

The State Department isn’t going to say where or when it learned of the potential plot to attack US diplomatic facilities around the world, but that wont stop Greenwald and the tinhat brigade from claiming that this is false flag or somehow trumped up.

Al Qaeda reads the papers and media outlets like everyone else. They might be thinking that the US has taken the eye off the ball and that they could go unnoticed.

The government can’t take the risk that an attack occurs, but Greenwald has every luxury to ankle bite and second guess.

Curious that he’s managed to insert himself into each and every opportunity to criticize the current Administration on its national security apparatus all while ignoring those of his current domicile (Brazil), those of the present and immediately prior whereabouts of Ed Snowden (Russia and China, respectively).

Once again, Greenwald wants to conflate and confuse the facts. The NSA has every right to spy on foreign entities and individuals. It has the right, under certain specific circumstances - namely with a warrant - to spy on US citizens domestically. Greenwald purposefully obfuscates this. The Guardian articles repeatedly insert the caveat that warrants are required, but Greenwald seeks to make this about a government that operates without laws and restrictions. He’s repeatedly talking in the hypothetical when defining a current program, even though the current program has no such action available to them at present.

43 darthstar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:39:49am

Mr. T on twitter:

44 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:40:42am

FAKE QUOTE DERP

45 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:41:03am

re: #43 darthstar

Mr. T on twitter:

[Embedded content]

The fact that’s actually FROM the real guy makes it 10X more awesome.

46 EPR-radar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:41:25am

re: #25 Bulworth

The thing that bothers me about this is, they just issued the alert. And right away the cry of False Flag goes up. It isn’t that we have to be shaking in our boots, but why not allow some time to transpire before yelling False Flag, give some time before automatically claiming the alert is something nefarious.

The wingnuts are projecting again. In the Bush years, the color-coded terror alert level was adjusted according to political considerations in addition to perceived threat levels.

47 darthstar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:41:32am
48 Internet Tough Guy  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:42:12am

GOOGLE IT URSELF = I GOT NUTHIN

49 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:42:38am

Here will be the reactions from the Right:

If nothing happens - FALSE WARNING!! OBAMA JUST TESTING SYSTEMS TO TAKE US OUT!!

If something happens - OBAMA DIDN’T ACT FAST ENOUGH!!

50 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:42:56am


Good point.

51 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:45:07am

Libertarian foreign policy and national security.

52 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:45:12am

re: #48 Internet Tough Guy

GOOGLE IT URSELF = I GOT NUTHIN

Google it yourself = Because shut up

53 EPR-radar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:45:15am

re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg

Pretty much. Some enterprising troll should see if Orly Taitz can be induced into filing a lawsuit against Obama for theft of atmospheric oxygen by breathing.

The RW really has lost all capacity for thought in their anti-Obama obsessions.

54 Kragar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:45:33am

The horrifying truth about the Labyrinth

55 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:46:13am

re: #44 Vicious Babushka

FAKE QUOTE DERP

@viciousbabushka prove he didn’t ever say it. May not be his original wisdom, but that does not prove he NEVER “said”. Unless you were there

WERE YOU THERE WHEN HE DIDN’T SAY IT??!?!

CONFIRMED!! FACT!

Somewhere, that guy’s teachers are hiding in shame.

56 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:46:26am

re: #52 Kragar

Google it yourself = Because shut up

U CAN’T PROVE WASHINGTON/JEFFERSON/FRANKLIN NEVER SAID THAT FAKE QUOTE PRUDENCE TWEETED

57 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:47:06am

re: #55 GeneJockey

WERE YOU THERE WHEN HE DIDN’T SAY IT??!?!

CONFIRMED!! FACT!

Somewhere, that guy’s teachers are hiding in shame.

Home-schooled.

58 EPR-radar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:47:17am

re: #48 Internet Tough Guy

GOOGLE IT URSELF = I GOT NUTHIN

Google it yourself = I spout lies faster than you can refute them.

59 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:49:12am

re: #50 Gus

Oh that. MOAR FALSE FLAG!!!

60 lawhawk  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:50:24am

Heck, the State Department could have found out about this six months ago, knowing an attack would occur in this time frame? Or it could have popped up last week.

Only Greenwald and derpers think that this is all part of some plan to game the alert system to political ends.

AQ and Taliban have been very busy in Iraq and Pakistan lately - jail breaks. This is potentially part of a longer term offensive to free more AQ and to take the fight back to the US after suffering setbacks in the UAV war and taking out AQ leadership in places like Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

61 darthstar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:52:25am
62 Internet Tough Guy  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:52:38am

re: #50 Gus

Obama freed all those AQ so they can distract us from

(pick one)
A. ZOMG NSA
B. BENGHAZII!!!!!1111
C. 0bAMAKAR3
D. 4LL uv T|-|3 abuv

63 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:52:46am

Derpfest going on over Rangel. TIHS PRUVZ TAHT LIBRULZ IS TEH REAL RACISTS!!!1111

64 jaunte  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:53:41am

re: #61 darthstar

Periwinkle: too much yellow in it.

65 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:54:52am
66 darthstar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:55:41am

re: #64 jaunte

Periwinkle: too much yellow in it.

Lavendar?

67 darthstar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:56:30am

re: #65 Gus

Isn’t GG a Wikileaks funder?

68 darthstar  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:57:04am
69 Gus  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:57:16am

re: #67 darthstar

Isn’t GG a Wikileaks funder?

Not that I know of.

70 Dr. Matt  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:57:17am
71 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 11:57:17am

re: #66 darthstar

Lavendar?

Mauve! Fuscha! Chartreuse! Ecru! Mushroom!

72 Bulworth  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:02:07pm

Enroll America has the potential to result in Peak Wingnut.

MIAMI BEACH — Her clipboard said the man who lived in the pink stucco apartment building a few blocks from the hotel-lined beach might not have health insurance. So Laura Botero climbed the darkened staircase to the second floor and knocked on the door.

Eduardo Devine, 49, an unemployed beach waiter in black, square-framed glasses, peeked into the dim hallway. He confirmed he had been without coverage since he was laid off a month ago, and his face lit up when Botero mentioned “Obamacare.”

“I just heard about it on the news, but I don’t know how it works,” he said, taking a pamphlet. “It will help. That’s all I know.”

It was a small but critical victory for Botero, a volunteer for Enroll America, a nonprofit group that is fielding a small army to spread the word about Obamacare. In recent weeks, President Obama’s signature health-care law entered a new phase as hundreds of advocates began the arduous task of identifying the uninsured and coaxing them, one by one, to sign up for coverage.

For the law to succeed, groups such as Enroll America, whose officials include several veterans of Obama campaigns, will need to cajole millions of Americans, including many healthy ones, to enter the insurance market. It could be a tough sell. Confusion about the law is rampant. The online insurance sites, which open for enrollment Oct. 1, could be tricky. Some people who rarely need medical care might view even low-cost health plans as too pricey.

73 A Man for all Seasons  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:03:31pm

The Libertarian take on National policy reflects a 1915 view of the world.
Let’s jump into our own bed and pull the covers over our head and hope nothing happens in the world today. A simple closed minded world view.
I don’t agree with some of the leadership politics we have employed over the years and we can do so much better…To bury our heads in the sand is not policy. It is surrender to the winds of change that sweeps our world.

74 Ian G.  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:04:31pm

re: #72 Bulworth

Enroll America has the potential to result in Peak Wingnut.

You know, I’m not going to lie, but I’m worried that we might end up with another Goodman/Schwerner/Chaney with Enroll America. Yes, the right is that fucking insane.

75 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 12:24:37pm

re: #72 Bulworth

Enroll America has the potential to result in Peak Wingnut.

Is it sad I already expect at least one of these Enroll America people to end up dead?

76 GeneJockey  Fri, Aug 2, 2013 1:13:32pm

re: #57 Vicious Babushka

Home-schooled.

I know what you mean, but as it turns out, my older son is homeschooled. The combo of Aspergers and extreme social anxiety made public school impossible, and the cost of any good private school made it unaffordable. That, and my wife is a credentialed K-12 teacher!

She discovered that homeschoolers break down into 3 camps: Religious Nuts, Beansprouts, and Special Needs. The second two categories often overlap, and can share information, though the Bean Sprouts can get annoying. The Religious Nuts? They’re looking for exactly the opposite curriculum materials - NON-critical NON-thinking, for example!


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