Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain

• Pakistani diplomat launches scathing attack on White House
• European intelligence claims raised terror alerts 'nonsensical'

Simon Tisdall and Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 October 2010

"A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian.

The non-specific US warning, which despite its vagueness led Britain, France and other countries to raise their overseas terror alert levels, was an attempt to justify a recent escalation in US drone and helicopter attacks inside Pakistan [This is exactly what Gareth Porter said in an interview by Press TV, posted below] that have "set the country on fire", said Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the high commissioner to Britain...."

COMMENT:

As the old saying goes, you can fool all the people some of the time, ....., but you can't fool all the people all the time.

The current Al-Jazeera online poll (posted yesterday) shows that 85% of those responding do not believe that there is a threat.