Kenyan authorities announced on September 5 that terrorists from Somalia with alleged ties to al Qaeda planned three bomb attacks in Nairobi while Hillary Clinton was there, August 4 – 7.
Electronic communications between the Nairobi terror cell and their handlers in Somalia were intercepted by Kenyan anti-terror investigators.
The plot, which was stopped by Kenyan security officials, was in the final stages, and threatened the life of the Secretary of State. Terrorists with links to the al Shabaab group were planning to bomb the Hotel InterContinental where Hillary Clinton was staying. They were also planning to bomb the Kencom Bus Stage, and the Hilton Hotel.
The masterminds of the attack were in contact with Saleh Nabhan, one of the FBI’s most wanted. His personal assistant, Anas, is alleged to have been coordinating the plot.
Five suspects, all Somalis, were arrested, including one carrying a Danish passport with forged Danish identity papers. Danish officials have no knowledge of the individual.
According to one Kenyan official:
While in the past the real target of the attacks has been Western interests, the al Qaeda leadership has since made Kenya a new target. So serious is the threat that during the Agoa meeting, the Al Qaeda intended to strike at the heart of Nairobi during the rush hours.
Why is the mainstream media ignoring the fact that there was an al Qaeda plot to kill Hillary Clinton? When someone of Hilllary Clinton's status is the subject of a alleged foiled terrorist plot, it should be a major front page story.
Hillary Clinton is a former First Lady of the United States. She is a former United States Senator. She is the Secretary of State, which in previous administrations would make her the most powerful diplomat in the world. Hillary Clinton is allegedly considering a resignation of her position to run for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York.
Why is this story being ignored?
To date, with the exception of a handful of international publications, the Examiner on-line publications, and a few blogs, there is nothing about the al Qaeda plot to assassinate Hillary Clinton in the media at all. Why?
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That's a dangerous part of the world, she was well protected, and nothing happened. (Except for her stupid tantrum on that kid.)These people are professionals, and consider it all in a day's work.
BTW, how do you know that's she's thinking of resigning her position to run for NY Gov? She didn't resign her seat in the Senate, until after she was sworn in as SOS.
2 - Secy Clinton Blog
I spoke to Kirit Radio of ABC news about this and he told me that the reason it was getting no coverage in British or US media is because his sources at State told him there's nothing to the story.
Also, with respect to the comment above about Hillary resigning to run for Governor- that is total nonsense- the rumor is based, literally, on a one-sentence blog post from the Weekly Standard the other day. There's not a single named source for any of it.
This latest rumor is just a twist on the theme from about a month-and-a-half ago where rumors were going around saying there was a rift between Secy Clinton and Obama and that she has no power- a claim she personally rebutted.
Some people are so gullible.
Some people are just trying to stir up trouble.
3 - SJ Reidhead
I am trying to locate information to confirm or debunk the story. Aside from the info provided by the Sec Clinton Blog, everything else I am finding points to something happening. I do not trust anything out of ABC. As for the rumors of her resignation, too many are now swirling.
I emailed Dave Nalle a few minutes ago and told him I would update this story as I find the information. FP, where the comment above is taken is part of Newsweek. I do not trust their content, either.
If the story were not true, it seems to me there would be retractions all around. So far I the only "retraction" I see is coming from the Sec Clinton Blog.
I will update as needed.
SJR
4 - roger nowosielski
SJ,
If even half of you're saying is true, you're in the Matt Drudge category of "breaking news."
Keep at it.
5 - zingzing
"I do not trust anything out of ABC."
"Newsweek... I do not trust their content, either."
of course, both of those news sources usually back their shit up. but i'm making a list of news sources you like and don't. apparently, the weekly standard blog (who also doesn't like to back up their shit) gets a "like." we'll see where this goes...
as for the actual story here, i think that there comes a point where al qaeda is just looking for publicity, to make themselves look and feel important on the world stage. something bumbled so badly (and with such an obvious lack of confidence) might have actually hurt them if it had been reported more heavily. that's the only good reason i can think of to report it. otherwise, it's like paying too much attention to a crying 5-year-old.
6 - roger nowosielski
zing,
Kanani's article is along the same lines, about the NYT interest in suppressing the kidnapping of their journalist in Afghanistan for presumably the same reason - not to give Taliban the publicity they possibly want.
Check it out.
7 - SJ Reidhead
My problem is the fact that I'm down with the worst toothache and worst pain I've ever experienced in my whole life. I've taken so many advil I can't stay awake. I think I've had 6 hrs sleep since last Sun the pain is so bad. I'm on antibiot. and the dentist worked on it, but I'm still in agony.
Am not firing on all thrusters....
Okay - why hasn't the State Dept. confirmed or denied the whole thing?
I know for a fact, from a first person source, that al Qaeda from Somalia infiltrated the Sudanese refugee camps set up in Kenya. My source was discovered to be in one of the camps, interviewing people barely made it out of the country in one piece.
From that one piece of information, I know there is a possibility of an attack in Kenya with an al Qaeda link. That's why I don't discount the story.
Why didn't the Administration come out and deny the story immediately?
There are simply too many rumors floating around right now about Hillary and that position to discount the story.
SJR
8 - SJ Reidhead
ADDITIONAL UPDATE:
The reporter who broke the story is a highly respected investigative journalist in Kenya, who has been known to do the old fashioned kind of news digging to get a big story.
SJR
9 - El Bicho
that left-wing media bias we hear so much about?
10 - b real
the story is ignored in the west because it's an obvious propaganda piece, intended for kenyan consumption & not really the west. try reading the daily nation on a regular basis wrt their coverage of affairs in somalia & you'll catch on pretty quick. lots of deliberate fear-mongering about the situation in somalia being a threat to kenyan national security which helps justify kenya's ongoing covert & increasingly more overt participation in the u.s. counter-revolutionary program in somalia.
doesn't help that the u.s. program is ran out of nairobi & the usual alphabet agencies purposely play the local media like that.
and fyi - tales of al-qa'idah in somalia are part of the deception
11 - Silas Kain
Why Is the Media Ignoring the Al Qaeda Plot to Kill Hillary Clinton?
Probably because the story doesn't hold water. And the media is too obsessed these days with the Ultra Right's plot to kill the Presidency of Barack Obama.
12 - Ruvy
Kenya.... Kenya.... Why does Kenya ring a bell? Could it be that it has something to do with some nice young man with an irisah name whose been talking about "hope and change"? Or maybe it was "hype and change"?
Martha, could you get me my meds, dear?
Wait a minute! I'm not married to a Martha! What's going on here?
13 - zingzing
oh wait! oh shit! oh no! obama was born outside of american soil! wasn't he? and the 14th amendment doesn't allow... wait... yes it does. might want to read the thing, but who gives a shit?
oh, ruvy?
fuck ruvy.
14 - Ruvy
What are you drooling on about, zing? Have you NO sense of humor at all? Maybe you need YOUR meds - with water, not liquor....
15 - Jordan Richardson
You said something funny, Ruvy?
16 - STM
Ruvy, still banging on about that Kenyan rubbish??
With no axe to grind not being a Yank, I gave a long and detailed explanation of why that Kenyan birth certificate was a fake - and a bad fake, too.
It was based on one belonging to a guy from South Australia that was posted on the net as part of geneology project.
It was the same shape (long form, with all the info listed top to bottom, reading down, rather than across) and they even had the same name for the registrar.
The other big problem with it was that it had a dated and signed "Republic of Kenya" stamp a year before Kenya became a republic. At the time it's dated, Kenya WAS independent - but as a Dominion, not a republic. That fact can be verified on the country's official parliamentary website.
Drop off mate. It's all wrong.
Also, whoever dummied it up must have mistakenly believed that all birth certificates in the British Commonwealth are the same shape and form.
They're not - even in Australia they differ somewhat from state to state.
And the British long-form one reads across (info listed left to right), rather than tp to bottom.
In other words, it's very wide, rather than deep.
The whole thing there's a crock and very amateurishly done in the hope that it might pass for the "evidence" no one could actually find through any legitimate source.
17 - STM
Mainly because there is none :)
18 - Ruvy
Ruvy, still banging on about that Kenyan rubbish??
I haven't raised that issue at all here, Stan. Zing raised it, because he wanted to be a pain. Frankly, I could care less. WHEN the issue of Obama's birthplace rises to threaten his regime (and it will), he'll clamp down on what little remains of "democracy" in the United States.
Ain't my problem. Let the Americans deal with their own stupidity, stubborness and blindness. I don't care anymore. The stupid fucks have practically forgotten who screwed them in the ass on 11 September, 2001, and who continues to screw them in the ass.
As for the mainstream media purposefully ignoring an attempt to ignore an assassination attempt on Hillary Clinton, one of your competitors did cover the story. Frankly, so far as I'm concerned, the only bad thing about it all is that they didn't kill her.
And now, Jordan. I'm not joking around.
19 - zingzing
ruvy: "What are you drooling on about, zing? Have you NO sense of humor at all?"
barking up the wrong tree, ruvy. but if you were joking, haha. i love your jokes. they so bad, they good.
20 - zingzing
ruvy: "WHEN the issue of Obama's birthplace rises to threaten his regime (and it will)"
it's been and gone, ruvy. you live in the past. no one really gave a shit about that (have you read the 14th amendment?) and no one will.
21 - zingzing
"Frankly, so far as I'm concerned, the only bad thing about it all is that they didn't kill her. "
you're a good person.
22 - El Bicho
"Frankly, so far as I'm concerned, the only bad thing about it all is that they didn't kill her. "
Why anyone continues to engage this loon is beyond me.
23 - Ruvy
Why anyone continues to engage this loon is beyond me.
A lot of things are beyond you. Intelligent commentary is one of them. Stick to reviews. You're good at them.
24 - STM
Ruve: "I haven't raised that issue at all here".
I distinctly remember a conversation about it on these very threads ... encompassing other Obama conspiracy theories, of course, including Indonesia.
Either that, or you've finally sent me round the twist, Ruve.
25 - Ruvy
I distinctly remember a conversation about it on these very threads....
But, Stan, I've said not a word about it all on this comment thread. This is what I meant by "here". Yeah, there is another court hearing scheduled over another lawsuit brought before a court in the United States. One part of that lawsuit involves an alleged birth certificate that to me looks to be a fake, based on the research I did that made me realize the other was a fake. You can look it up on World Net Daily - or not.
As I said, I don't care anymore. WHEN a birth certificate or some other issue related to Obama's lack of one that successfully challenges this lying faker in the White House DOES arise, THAT will be when Obama makes the moves to suppress freedom in the States. I stand by that.
But when it happens, it will happen. Till then, I could care less. But for the rest of the readers in the States, they may wish to view this little item about ACORN.
I gotta laugh every time I remember the several times I applied for work at ACORN years ago, thinking it was a legit organization. I could have gotten in on a great criminal enterprise and pulled in lots of money, if I had the mind of a criminal. I don't - I have the mind of a revolutionary.