Baghdad says warned Iran, France & US of looming terror attacks

[CJCRANE]

EXCERPT:

A day after the devastating terror attacks in Paris, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said his country’s intelligence services had warned governments of three countries, including France, that terrorists had chosen as primary targets.

“Information has been obtained from Iraqi intelligence sources that the countries to be targeted soon are Europe in general, specifically France, as well as America and Iran,” Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Saturday on the sidelines of Vienna negotiations searching to put an end to the war in Syria.

Al-Jaafari did not go into detail which terrorist organization is posing the threat, but he urged a global response to Islamic State (IS, former ISIL/ISIS), which is currently controlling large areas of Iraq and Syria.

LINK:

https://www.rt.com/news/322187-iraq-warned-france-terror/

[lamp_shade]

1. Is "rt" a good source?

[CJCRANE]

2. Is the information true or false?

[lamp_shade]

3. Did I ask a stupid question?

[cantbeserious]

5. Depends On Whom One Asks - Opinions Pro And Con

eom

[CJCRANE]

7. It's up to you to make up your own mind. The information is either accurate or not.

I post from various sources because the stories I'm interested in aren't always covered by western or liberal media sources.

In the Bush era we posted articles from all over the world.

[CJCRANE]

8. Apologies for being sharp with you

but there's more of a tendency for DUers to question the source these days, even when it's factual information.

I can understand if it's an offensive op-ed, but I don't like to limit myself when it comes to news reports (as long as it's a mainstream source).

[LiberalArkie]

9. Obama and Putin had a high level meeting 6 hrs ago at G20 meeting.

Obama and Putin meet on G20 sidelines
Posted at 14:33
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held a private conversation on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Turkey. The meeting lasted about 15 minutes.

[GummyBearz]

26. Obama still trying to reach out and work with those who wont help anyone but themselves

What I see in this picture is a repeat of trying to work with the republican(t) congress that totally screwed him over once they had a majority.

On the left you have Obama talking about collaboration, sharing some thoughts. On the right you have Putin just staring and nodding, while cold calculating how to exploit anything possible in this situation... As a person with generally good intentions myself, I hate getting burned by dealing with such people.

[uppityperson]

13. It is sponsored by the state. Some of the news is accurate, some quite slanted

Getting corroboration from another source is a good idea to be able to judge the reality.


http://new.spectator.co.uk/2014/12/the-truth-about-russia-today-is-that-it-is-putins-mouthpiece/

[lamp_shade]

15. Thanks. This is good to know.

[TM99]

4. Wow, the irony of this is

staggering.

[cantbeserious]

6. Agreed

eom

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Frankly, I don't believe anything an Iranian Minister has to say.

Especially when it comes after the fact.

[CJCRANE]

11. It's the Iraqi foreign minister, not Iranian. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. Misread that. Sorry.

I believe the Iraqi Foreign Minister only slightly more.

[Aerows]

14. Not suprised in the slightest

We have a history of ignoring warnings about attacks of this nature.

Each time, they are horribly costly not to the military, but to the civilian population.

[840high]

17. Yep

[linuxman]

21. Okay you're now France's leader.

I'm the /Iraqi head of intelligence.

"Tomorrow there will be an attack somewhere in France. Maybe. I don't know by where or by who."

What do you do to stop it?

Go!

[Lurks Often]

16. A warning borders on useless if there aren't any details

Without a rough of idea of the where, when and method of the attack, taking sufficient measures to stop the attack is very difficult.

[Aerows]

18. Do not test the intelligence of everybody under the sun.

Every fucking time we have these alerts, they get ignored, and people die. Spare me the asinine bullshit when we have surveillance on the population out the butt.

I ran yesterday, and I have to say even in my boring little burg I was apprehensive.

Whoever is doing national security is an absolute shitbag at it, not just in the US, but in all countries.

If you think for a second you will make the population wilt so that they quit doing things that they desire to do like running, attending concerts, movies, and whatever in the fuck they want to do, you are sadly mistaken.

If you are part of DHS, you should be fucking ashamed of yourself because France is part of the coalition the exchanges intel.

Our DHS has to be some of the dumbest sons of goats alive, and I'm not even surprised because I've met a few that it is a damn shock they made it out of college.

No more of this bullshit.

[Lurks Often]

20. Lol, you have no clue what you are talking about.

[justiceischeap]

23. This is true

but we also don't know what information was passed along in that warning. It may be enough for intelligence agencies to ferret out the details.

The biggest obstacle is if the warnings don't suggest a timeline.

[Lurks Often]

24. Granted. The article lacks details

And I doubt we'll see the details reported since it could compromise the way the information was gathered.

[justiceischeap]

25. I would criticize any paper that printed too many details

One of the issues I have with the whole Snowden affair is that intelligence needs to be private or otherwise its useless in its effectiveness.

[Aerows]

19. I'm at the point

where I am beginning to believe they just want everybody to die, because we are inconvenient.

I am so fed up, I could scream. You can't even do something like go on a run without being scared shitless you might get bombed.

[linuxman]

22. Maybe you should apply.

Really teach them a thing or two.

[Sunlei]

27. would assume every country 'bombing' IS, is threatened with retaliation, including Russia?

To me it seems very easy to get ahold of weapons to do attacks in most countries? some countries easier than others.

IMO, The hardest part for IS 'Leaders' may be to radicalize attackers enough to be willing to suicide. But who knows, they may have family members as insurance attacks are carried out. Most of these attackers are in their 20s & probably have children & family somewhere.