George Tenet: ‘Al Qaeda is in USA Waiting to Strike’
When top Intelligence officials start penning down books containing highly uncomfortable secrets about the on-going top-priority issues, there is usually a public and media outcry.
However, a plethora of shocking revelations about President Bush & Co’s policy and conduct with regard to the Iraq tragedy/fiasco, seems to have no effect on the present US power coterie. And the media also seems to be getting tired of reporting one scandal after another.
Now how about this one…Al Qaeda is in the United States. Who says? This latest warning comes from George Tenet, who was CIA director for seven years, the second-longest term as head of America’s top intelligence agency in US history. Tenet says in his latest book that he’s surprised there have not been more attacks on American soil. ‘I do know one thing in my gut that Al Qaeda is here and waiting.’
“ Tenet, who served as CIA chief from 1997 to 2004, questioned how Al Qaeda hasn’t sent ’suicide bombers to cause chaos in a half-dozen American shopping malls on any given day.’
Tenet’s 549-page book, “At the Center of the Storm,” published by HarperCollins, is set to hit the bookstores on Monday.
This Tenet warning is carried as an excerpt from his book in myfoxdc. Please click here for more…
Now what about Al Qaeda and the nuclear threat? The Los Angeles Time has this to say: “In “At the Center of the Storm,” Tenet writes at some length about Al Qaeda’s attempts to obtain or develop a nuclear weapon.
“Just weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, a Pakistani organization, Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, or UTN, had met in Afghanistan with Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, to discuss how Al Qaeda ’should go about building a nuclear device,’ the CIA was told.
“Tenet also sketches out details of an attempt by Al Qaeda leaders in Saudi Arabia to buy what he described as three black-market Russian nuclear devices in 2002 and 2003.”
And here… “In a stinging indictment of the U.S. handling of the Iraq war, former CIA Director George J. Tenet accuses the Bush administration in a new book of ignoring repeated warnings that the country was collapsing into civil war and voices deep skepticism that the current ’surge’ in troops can succeed. Tenet accuses the White House of having ‘no strategy’ for handling postwar Iraq, and concludes that the recent effort to deploy more troops has come far too late.”
Tenet’s warning and analysis bolsters the case of those who have been warning President Bush for years to pay more attention to the security issues within the USA rather than chasing a mythical desert ‘Nessie’ in Iraq.
