TERRORISM Podcast: Sarah Adams - Is the Pentagon Ignoring the Most Dangerous Threat of All

Heliobas Disciple

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I wanted to watch the whole thing before posting this. It is definitely worth a watch. Sarah Adams knows her stuff and what she says is something everyone needs to be aware of. Basically, she says OBL's son Hamsa (and Al Qaeda) is alive and thriving and planning attacks all around the globe, including CONUS. In stages. Israel was first, then Syria. They plan to hit Europe and then/or simultaneously CONUS. And Africa. And establish a caliphate.

She says AQ and Hamsa bin Laden are behind everything, with massive training camps and with terrorists embedded around the globe (and that Oct 7th and what's happening in Syria are both his operations), and he doesn't care at all if he gets credit. In fact he'd prefer if ISIS gets the credit so he can go on fulfilling his and his father's operation. She throws out a lot of long Arabic names that makes it a little hard to follow, I just gave up and decided to get the big picture without trying to follow every name. What she says about how the gov't reacts to her research is also eye opening.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T50pRCNaQCA
Sarah Adams - Is the Pentagon Ignoring the Most Dangerous Threat of All? | SRS #149
Shawn Ryan Show
Dec 12, 2024
1 hr 50 min 35 sec

In this episode of SRS, Sarah Adams exposes the hidden realities behind global security threats and government inaction. She discusses alarming intelligence gaps, Taliban funding, Al Qaeda’s evolving strategies, and the unsettling roles of China and Russia in shaping terrorist activities. Drawing from historical events like Benghazi, the conversation challenges listeners to rethink what’s being overlooked in today’s geopolitical landscape.

The discussion also highlights Hamza bin Laden’s influence, the challenges faced by abandoned allies, and the evolving nature of terrorist tactics. Through detailed analysis and candid reflections, Adams provides a nuanced perspective on the complexities of global and domestic security.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
02:03 Pentagon Controversy and Open Source Intelligence
04:24 Al Qaeda's Threats and Plots
12:00 Funding the Taliban and Congressional Inaction
16:52 Newsletter and Intelligence Brief
30:28 Hamza Bin Laden and the Islamic Army
38:12 Restoration of the Caliphate
42:07 Hamza Bin Laden's Movements
50:35 Al Qaeda and Iran's Relationship
53:28 Complex Terrorist Networks
01:00:28 October 7th Hamas Attacks
01:23:19 Training and Preparation for Attacks
01:36:49 The Role of China and Russia



If you're not sure if you want to invest almost two hours of your time, here's the preview video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0D0tbdRgWM
CIA Targeter: "The Upcoming Attack in America" | Official Preview
Shawn Ryan Show
Dec 11, 2024
6 min 13 sec

Former CIA targeter Sarah Adams sounded the alarm about an impending attack, but her urgent warnings were met with pushback from the Pentagon, which accused her of bypassing 'proper channels.' In this video, we explore Adams' critical intel, her relentless efforts to bring attention to the threat, and the high-stakes clash with Pentagon officials who dismissed her warnings. Was this a failure of bureaucracy or a brave stand against a system unwilling to act?
 
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Jackpine Savage

Veteran Member
Ignoring ?

Hell, no.

Facilitating.
Shawn Ryan and Sarah Adams shared this story months ago.

I'm not sure if it's still happening.

I heard the 9/11 attack was accomplished with about $500,000.


Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Used to Support Taliban Every Single Day


By Rob Phillimore June 27, 2024

Millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars end up in Taliban pockets every week, according to a new video shared by Jazz Cannon on LinkedIn, featuring a conversation between an Afghan-American veteran and Congressman Tim Burchett, representative of the 2nd District of Tennessee.

Explaining how $40m a week lands in the hands of the Taliban, the veteran says 40 million of American people’s tax money is shipped to Afghanistan by the current administration every week, and has been since September 2021.

He adds that the intention of the State Department is that this money goes to the Afghan International Bank (AIB) and is given to “local implementing partners” or NGOs, but this is not the case, as the AIB lacks “authority to auction or convert that money” and hands the 40 million over to the Taliban controlled Central Bank.

From here, Taliban members, including Noor Ahmad Agha, who has been sanctioned by the United States for financing IED attacks that have killed American soldiers, hold auctions where the money is “basically given to the Hawala system, or individuals involved in the Hawala license.”

He continues to explain that each week individuals who hold the Hawala license and can convert the money are invited to bid, and the winning bid is always placed by someone associated with the Haqqani network, which is a sanctioned terrorist group.

Those individuals take that money and convert it into Afghani, making between $1m-$3m profit every week, with a share of that going to the Haqqani Network, and another share going to the terrorists running the central bank.

Then that money is given to the nine hundred (pro Taliban) NGOs, which are all newly established with licenses and permits provided by the Taliban. According to the veteran, these NGOs receive the aid and then give a cut directly to the Taliban and other terrorists, or send aid and cash to areas inhabited by Taliban sympathizers or Taliban fighters, with Haqqani fighters and families of suicide bombers known to have received this aid, says the veteran.

As they wrap up their conversation, the veteran explains to Rep. Burchett that we would see signs of the Taliban and other terrorist organizations crumbling within a year, if the United States were to suspend the $40m payment.

This comes as Congressman Burchett’s bill (H.R. 6586) to stop American taxpayer’s dollars being used to support the Taliban passed the House of Representatives under suspension of the rules on June 25, 2024.
 

LittleYellowFlower

Flower Whisperer
As a Southerner of Gaelic descent, the rule of hospitality has been ingrained in me since birth. I have been taught to be polite and courteous and welcoming, though watchful and discerning. I wonder now if our good manners and desire to not be hypocritical will be our undoing?
Same here. I had never thought of this but I definitely understand it. Thank you for putting that out there.
 

Samuel Adams

Has No Life - Lives on TB
SUPERBAD will not mince words. If she MEANT facilitating, she most certainly would have SAID "facilitating".

She ain't cowed or scared.

Which tells ME that she has enough on enough people that she CAN speak her mind.

Jaded, apparently, is relative to the individual.

Mine is dominant.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Fmr. Biden Hostage Official: ISIS, al-Qaeda Stronger than Ever, Can’t Keep Burying Heads in Sand
Ian Hanchett
1 Jan 2025

During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attack in New Orleans on Wednesday, Senior Vice President for Global Operations at The Soufan Group Christopher O’Leary, who was Director of Hostage Rescue and Recovery during the Biden administration and worked in counterterror positions across multiple administrations stated that “al-Qaeda and ISIS are stronger now than they’ve ever been,” and the U.S. government “has pivoted a lot of its attention and resources and authorities away from it. If we continue to try to just bury our heads in the sand and hope the bogeyman’s going to go away, these are the things that will start happening again.”

Host Christina Ruffini asked, “[W]e were talking earlier about the state of ISIS, al-Qaeda as a global jihadist movement, and when we talk about associates, whether or not that’s someone these individuals are speaking to directly or whether they’re just taking inspiration. Can you talk us through — I feel like it used to be something we heard about a lot more — are those organizations weakened or are they stronger, and how much impact can they have on somebody who might be inspired to take kind of this action?”

O’Leary responded, “I think it’ll surprise most people to learn that al-Qaeda and ISIS are stronger now than they’ve ever been, through their affiliates around the world. So, to give people a reference point, al-Qaeda was roughly less than 500 members before September 11, mostly relegated to Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda and ISIS — and ISIS grew out of al-Qaeda — and their affiliates are globally dispersed with over about two dozen countries around the world and compose roughly 40,000 members. So, to think that terrorism is behind us is really naive. And, unfortunately, the U.S. government has pivoted a lot of its attention and resources and authorities away from it. If we continue to try to just bury our heads in the sand and hope the bogeyman’s going to go away, these are the things that will start happening again. So, we were told it was a generational fight, we have to commit ourselves to that, number one. And number two, there’s a great Afghan saying that you have the watches, we have the time. Well, people committed to this extremist ideology, they’re not a flash in the pan, they’re intending to come after us when we let our guard down.”
 

Rabbit

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I played a game online while listening to her on YouTube on Roku. At one point she did mention that we are basically on our own. Most if not all on this forum knew that already head on a swivel.

I'm a pretty decent gardener and I've had year round gardens for over 30 years. My garden last year was horrible and it did not provide.

My advice ,considering all the strange things that seem to be in our air these days, is not to depend on your gardens as you have in the past. Stock up when and where you can.

I am still going to plant this year but I'm looking at alternatives.
 

TFergeson

Non Solum Simul Stare
Considering Bin Laden was a CIA asset, we can extend that influence to his son and take it from there.

9/11 brought the .gov's wet dream, the USAPATRIOT ACT. I can only imagine what laws they have pre written for the next totally unforeseen and completely unfacilitated "terrorist" attack.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
Sarah talked about a new kind of explosive the terrorists will use that escapes conventional detection. And now look at this story about the New Orleans bomber:


(fair use applies)
EXCERPT

New Orleans attacker used very rare explosive in bombs, officials say
The explosive has never before been used in a U.S. or European terrorist attack. A key question for investigators is how he learned of the explosive and managed to produce it.

Jan. 4, 2025
By Freddie Clayton and Tom Winter

The driver who killed 14 people in an ISIS-inspired vehicular attack in New Orleans used a very rare explosive compound in two homemade bombs that did not detonate, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.

The explosive has never been used in a U.S. terrorist attack or incident, nor in a European one, the officials said. A key question for investigators now is how Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the attacker, learned about the explosive and how he managed to produce it.

Neither of the homemade devices exploded and it remains unclear whether the failure was due to a malfunction, lack of activation or another issue. Jabbar planned to use a transmitter to detonate the two bombs, which were placed in coolers, authorities have said.

[snip]
 
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