(AP) Negroponte: Hezbollah a Growing Threat (against the US)

[Eugene]

Negroponte: Hezbollah a Growing Threat
By KATHERINE SHRADER
Associated Press Writer

January 11, 2007, 3:05 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida still poses the gravest terrorism threat to the United States,
and an emboldened Hezbollah is a growing danger, the U.S. intelligence chief said
Thursday.

In his annual review of global threats, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte
highlighted an increasingly worrisome posture of Hezbollah -- backed by Iran and Syria
-- since its 34-day war with Israel in July and August.

"As a result of last summer's hostilities, Hezbollah's self-confidence and hostility
toward the U.S. as a supporter of Israel could cause the group to increase its
contingency planning against U.S. interests," Negroponte told the Senate Intelligence
Committee in written testimony.

-snip-

Al-Qaida remains the top worry, he said. It maintains active connections "that radiate
outward from their leaders' secure hideout in Pakistan to affiliates throughout the
Middle East, northern Africa and Europe," Negroponte said. Conventional explosives
remain the "most probable" means of attack from the terrorist group, but there also
are reports that it is trying to obtain chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
weapons, he said.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-national-threats,0,206349.story

[ck4829]

1. But... But... Bush said that Israel beat Hezbollah, right?

[Homer12]

3. More pre-Iran war chatter.

[Jacobin]

4. yep

[Wiley50]

2. Here we Go: Prepareing the sheeple for 911 Two blamed on Iran

These guys are so transparent

[LiberalEsto]

5. With these guys, everyone is the enemy

Iraq
Iran
Hezbollah
alQaeda
Somalia
North Korea
Syria
Venezuela
Cuba
Democrats....
and on and on

[Amonester]

27. And, in Negropontosferatu's case, add the Nicaraguan

Sandinistas

Never Forget

[donkeyotay]

6. Wouldn't it be just as true to say that "as a result of last summer's hostilities,

the most notable of which was the horrific bombing of Lebanon, Hezbollah's support and popularity have increased," or would that imply that we take some responsiblity for our actions?

As a result of last summer's hostilities, Hezbollah's self-confidence and hostility toward the U.S. as a supporter of Israel could cause the group to increase its contingency planning against U.S. interests," Negroponte told the Senate Intelligence Committee in written testimony.

[wallwriter]

9. Add the Saddam corollary:

We have managed, through unjust, lopsided war, to make our despicable enemies much more popular.

[wordpix]

16. Bushit didn't contact Lebanan's government OR Israel's during last summer's hostilities--so much for

diplomacy from BushCo.

[partylessinOhio]

7. Negroponte is a lying snake of the first order! We need to drive all the

snakes out of power.

Negroponte will take us into one war after another. The US is the gravest threat to world peace. Al-Qaida and Hezbollah are just trying to protect their people from dangerous persons like Negroponte and other Neocons.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Yes, I'm terrified of Hezbollah. Absolutely shaking in my boots.

I haven't been this terrified since those cattle ranchers in Somalia were on the loose!

[Oak2004]

10. Oak2004: Negroponte a Growing Threat (against US)

n/t

[lovuian]

11. Beating the War drums

WAR WAR WAR

[LynnTheDem]

12. Two things; 1. BULLSHIT.

and 2, fuck off.

[IndianaGreen]

13. More neocon, Christian Zionist, and ultra-Zionist prowar propaganda

This is the same axis of evil that got us into a royal mess in Iraq!

[wordpix]

15. if you were Israeli & saw jack-booted, Heil Hitler-saluting Hezbollah coming to push you into the

sea, you wouldn't be so glib about Hezbollah and their grand plan.

[IndianaGreen]

17. You have been watching too much Faux News

If you want another war, this time against Iran and/or Syria, go to your friendly armed forces recruiting station and enlist.

The frontlines should be reserved for chicken hawks.

[The Stranger]

25. Actually, Hezbollah formed out of Israel's 19 year occupation of South Lebanon.

So whatever images you claim to be seeing, here in reality they were formed as a resistance group to a military occupation. Israel has done a good job making them powerful by its bombings of innocent Lebanese last Summer, most of whom never supported Hezbollah before.

[wordpix]

14. I believe Hezbollah IS a growing threat but we now cannot believe a word BushCo says

even if the cabal is occasionally right about a thing or two.

[Psephos]

19. I agree with both your points. n/t

[Ilsa]

18. Negroponte: a Growing Threat (against the US).nt

[ShockediSay]

20. "U.S. as a supporter of Israel could cause the group to increase its

"U.S. as a supporter of Israel could cause the group to increase its
contingency planning against U.S. interests"

Yeah, and Israel "could be our worst most subversive enemy"

[RamboLiberal]

21. WP: Intelligence Chiefs Pessimistic In Assessing Worldwide Threats

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011101104.html

Iraq is at a violent and "precarious juncture," while al-Qaeda is significantly expanding its global reach, effectively immune to the loss of leaders in battle, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte told Congress yesterday. He also warned that the Taliban is mounting a vigorous insurgency in Afghanistan, that Pakistan has become a safe haven for top terrorists and that Iran's growing regional power is threatening Middle East stability.

In their annual worldwide threat assessment before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Negroponte and other top intelligence chiefs provided a bleak assessment of regions and conflicts at the center of President Bush's foreign policy agenda.

One day after Bush unveiled a plan to send more than 21,000 additional troops to work alongside Iraqi troops in an increasingly violent war, the head of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency said Iraqi forces could not combat the insurgency there.

Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples said Iraqi security forces have been thoroughly infiltrated by Shiite militias and "are presently unable to stand alone against Sunni insurgents, al-Qaeda in Iraq" or the militias themselves. Negroponte, who was ambassador to Iraq in 2004-05, said sectarian violence had become the greatest problem inside the country.

[lovuian]

22. He destroyed the CIA FBI and NSA Now noone trusts him

and in intelligence there has to be TRUST

and there is none

then there is No Intelligence just SILENCE

[Eugene]

23. Related: Al-Qaeda 'rebuilding' in Pakistan (BBC)

Last Updated: Friday, 12 January 2007, 11:59 GMT

Al-Qaeda 'rebuilding' in Pakistan

The head of US spying operations says the leaders of al-Qaeda have found
a secure hideout in Pakistan from where they are rebuilding their strength.

-snip-

Pakistan rejected the comments, which are the most specific on the issue yet.

-snip-

The BBC's James Westhead in Washington says that until now the US has not
been so specific about where it believes al-Qaeda's leaders are hiding.

-snip-

He did not say where in Pakistan the group's leadership was hiding, or refer
to its chief, Osama Bin Laden, or his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri,
who are wanted for masterminding the 11 September attacks on Washington
and New York.

-snip-

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6254375.stm

From Reuters...

Pakistan takes issue with Negroponte over al Qaeda

By Zeeshan Haider
Reuters
Friday, January 12, 2007; 5:42 AM

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Friday the United States had not given
it any information about the presence of al Qaeda leaders, following remarks
from U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte that they were holed up in Pakistan.

"We have no such information nor has any such thing been communicated to us
by any U.S. authority," Pakistan's military spokesman Major-General Shaukat
Sultan told Reuters.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011200745.html

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. Oh fer fuck's sake...they really are beating the War Drum now, eh?

Hasn't the fucking media learned its lesson from the last trumped up war. Doesn't this AP writer know that this portion of the report was brought to attention precisely in order to set up yet another card in the House of Cards that will be the Syria-Iran Case for War? Will they never cease with their bullshit. Hezbollah wasn't a threat to the United States in the 1980's, when they were blowing up Marines and kidnapping Americans. They are even less so a threat today. This is nonsense.

[leesa]

26. Ah yes, let's ratchet up the Iran War talk...they could barely get those missiles into

Israel, but they are a distinct threat to us all right. Now we know why Negroponte was moved. Needed another bullhorn in the Let's Make War Department.

[goforit]

28. Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla bla blaaaaaaaa.......

blackpoint is full of sh*t!!!