Normally I’d be skeptical about a story like this, but it came from ABC’s Blotter, and so far I’m not aware of any false info coming from Brian Ross. So it seems that the, amazingly, still existent Al Qaeda/Taliban unit is now training people for suicide bombing missions into Europe and the US.

The tape shows Taliban military commander Mansoor Dadullah, whose brother was killed by the U.S. last month, introducing and congratulating each team as they stood.

“These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places,” Dadullah says on the tape. “Why shouldn’t we go after them?”

The leader of the team assigned to attack Great Britain spoke in English.

“So let me say something about why we are going, along with my team, for a suicide attack in Britain,” he said. “Whether my colleagues, companions and Muslim brothers die today or tonight, every drop of our blood will invigorate the Muslim (unintelligible).”

So, it seems, “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” has been adopted by the enemy. Boy, weird how no one saw that one coming. But don’t worry, the USA is right on it!

U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of “an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign.”

See, that’s why we got hit in the first place. People didn’t take the warnings seriously.

It’s a bizarre dichotomy. Foiled threats like the “Miami 7″ or the “Liberty Tower” attempt are looked at as national emergencies and proof we need to lock down the nation. Then this comes out and it’s just “propaganda.” You’d almost think the guv’mint knows that all of the “attempts” and emergencies are bullshit, and only hypes them up when it can be used politically.

Of course, that would be a crackpot liberal theory, wouldn’t it?