{"id":30405,"date":"2011-07-19T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30405"},"modified":"2011-07-21T07:16:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T07:16:07","slug":"experts-warn-of-al-qaeda-attack-if-debt-ceiling-not-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30405","title":{"rendered":"Experts Warn of al-Qaeda Attack If Debt Ceiling Not Raised"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kurt Nimmo \u2013 Info Wars July 18, 2011<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s not enough to frighten Americans with personal financial disaster if the massive debt scam is not perpetuated. In order to send the message, the government has decided to stoke up the al-Qaeda threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Let the bankers crank up the debt even more or this cave dweller and his operatives will get you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to counterterrorism experts polled by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hstoday.us\/industry-news\/general\/single-article\/ct-sources-americas-current-economic-problems-invite-attack\/2291b5a358ddb2312f3e8f4045c1c408.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Homeland Security Today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">, a possible downgrading of the U.S. credit rating by Moody\u2019s \u2013 and the mayhem in financial markets that would result \u2013 may inspire al-Qaeda to attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cSo you can understand why Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist organization motivated by the jihadist ideology, would see that America is highly vulnerable right now \u2013 perhaps more than it\u2019s ever been \u2014 to an attack or attacks the impact or direct effect [of which] would be further depression of the US\u2019s economy,\u201d a counterterrorism official told the homeland security affairs website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The credit ratings company\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/2011\/07\/15\/us-aaa-downgrade-would-ripple-into-every-home\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moody\u2019s has renewed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> its warning that if the United States defaults on its \u201cdebt obligations\u201d after the deadline set by the Treasury, it may downgrade its AAA bond rating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The debt is\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/walker\/walker34.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">well over $100 trillion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">, although the government tells us it is a paltry $14 trillion. Obama, the Federal Reserve, and the bankers want to raise the debt limit from $14.3 to $14.5 trillion so Congress can borrow and spend even more money.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warresisters.org\/pages\/piechart.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Most of the budget is spent on killing people in foreign lands<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Obama threatened the most vulnerable last week. He said the government will\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/what-will-happen-if-the-debt-ceiling-is-not-increased-52416\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">stop sending Social Security payments to seniors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> if Congress does not agree to raise the debt ceiling. He didn\u2019t say missing the deadline would shut down the wars in Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gary Sasse, director of the Institute for Public Leadership at Bryant University in Rhode Island, told Fox News a downgrade by Moody\u2019s would reach \u201cdown to every family in America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Fox said the ripple effect from a downgrade would be widespread and potentially severe, impacting everything from local municipalities and the neighborhood bank to home mortgages and student loans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But this threat is apparently not enough to scare Americans. Now the government is dragging a threadbare al-Qaeda out of the closet and waving it in our faces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cUnder Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda\u2019s goal had been to find a way to attack us in a way that would hurt us economically \u2013 and I mean\u00a0<em>really<\/em> hurt us. So if Al Qaeda still wants to slam us economically, now is the time to do it,\u201d said one of the US counterterrorism official. \u201cCertainly a catastrophic, mass casualty attack would have a dramatic impact on the economy, but so, too, would a coordinated small cell attack with automatic weapons at major amusement parks across the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Laura Hains, a retired ranking Customs and Border Protection officer, warned that the scary cave dwelling and turban wearing terrorists may attack one of America\u2019s most cherished institutions. \u201cCan you imagine what would happen if Disney\u2019s amusement parks in Florida were attacked? Florida\u2019s economy would collapse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/experts-warn-of-al-qaeda-attack-if-debt-ceiling-not-raised.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the bankers crank up the debt even more or this cave dweller and his operatives will get you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-Economics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30554,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30405\/revisions\/30554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}