CIA Front Into Their Usual Reverse Psychology

Pretend to be a really awful bad guy that promises to do awful shit if people don't do certain things. That'll get people to do the things you want them to, in this case stay the course in Afghan bloodletting.

Al-Qaeda Threatens New Attacks In Germany After Election

"In a new video message, the terrorist network al-Qaeda has warned of attacks in Germany during the two weeks after the Sept. 27 election, if there are no signals of a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan. Authorities are taking the threat seriously and have raised the level of security precautions.
If the sender of the video released on Friday afternoon was not in all likelihood al-Qaeda, it would be difficult to take it seriously: The speaker has dressed for the occasion in an atypical style, in a black suit and blue tie. Standing in front of a red curtain, the Islamist Bekkay Harrach, who is originally from the German city of Bonn, utters his threats. Nothing in the video is reminiscent of the style of previous publications of this kind.
But his message is clear, and the German security authorities are taking it seriously. In the name of al-Qaeda, the Islamist warns of terrorist attacks in Germany in the event that the result of the upcoming election does not reflect a desire on the part of the populace to withdraw the German army from Afghanistan."

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