US Embassy raises alarm of 'possible terrorist attack' in Sandton

rvZA

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Who started it? I saw a TimesLive article headlined,




Odd name-calling with these peeps. I have never thought Ramaphosa to have had a big nose, but I assumed it was him. "Nostrility" is a stereotype applied to the Jewish.

Anyhow, I pity US intelligence having to scrub through Dudu's social posts.

Malema is really stupid. Lol.... R1bn to be president.... No sir, white poepel paid him R100bn to become president.
 

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From the News24 article:
Three independent sources – within the police and the Crime Intelligence Division – who spoke on condition of anonymity said that American authorities had warned of the looming attack and identified seven individuals believed to be part of a cell aligned to the Islamic State (ISIS).
An impeccable source close to the State Security Agency (SSA) told News24 that the spook outfit was given information by their American counterparts, but neglected to include it in intelligence products, and had cut their political principal, Minister Mondli Gungubele, out of the loop.

It is understood that none of the weekly briefing documents sent to the Union Buildings included these alerts.

The source said that SSA operatives were "scrambling" to gather intelligence, adding that peace talks between warring parties in the Tigray region of Ethiopia currently underway in Pretoria could have been a potential target.
Ewi said the growing security risk to South Africa might, among other reasons, be credited to the country’s deployment of troops to neighbouring Mozambique despite the Islamic State’s warning that should this happen, the terror group would attack South Africa.
 

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From the News24 article:
All wrong.
DreamQueen will tell you it's the USA that will attack
 

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The US embassy has raised the alarm of a "possible terrorist attack" in the greater Sandton area in Johannesburg over the weekend.

In a security alert to US citizens in South Africa, it said, "terrorists may be planning to conduct an attack targeting large gatherings of people at an unspecified location" in Sandton on Saturday.

"There is no further information regarding the timing, method, or target of the potential attack," the alert read.

The embassy advised that individuals avoid crowds of people and other large public gatherings in that area on Saturday and Sunday.

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Did Nelson Mandela rise from the dead?!
 

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Keep up sugartits - your hero and murderous diktator has now declared Ukrainians to be satanists.

Just how much free WiFi are you lot allowed in Valkenberg?
The isis terrorists attacks were rooted on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and targeted US and Europe
Are Ukraine terrorist nazis following isis style operations
Zelensky been begging SA to stand with them against Russia
 

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Interesting how this is following the US "foreign policy plan" for countries that don't want to work with the US and bow to the US will. Iran helps out Russia and look protests erupt in Iran, China won't actively step in against Russia and sanction Russia and look protests in China. Now South Africa won't seize a mega yacht and sanction Russia and suddenly we are under attack from ISIS. Also, we are receiving these warnings from all the US allies. Interesting indeed. And yes, I know the reasons for the protests but the US loves to ignite a violent powder keg in a country or to keep a current one going.
 

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There never was any concrete evidence from the Americans even then, even after their warnings. You'd think they'd provide more info thereafter as they did before.

I am not saying there is nothing to this warning but they need to do better than to say they have no further information othr than a possible terrorist attack.
I think it is nice of them to give a warning.

They may have spies embedded in the terrorist organisation providing them with intel. So as not to compromise the spies, they just give a heads up but dont give anymore info. As in all things spy related, junk info and real info will always be mixed.

ANC and the greater public can use or ignore the information as they see fit.
 

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So what falls under "the greater Sandton area"?
I would say the Sandton city mall and surrounds, sasol and discovery are across the road, law firms, banks and finance houses all surround the mall a few hotels and gautrain
The rest is just residential and strip malls
 

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Interesting how this is following the US "foreign policy plan" for countries that don't want to work with the US and bow to the US will. Iran helps out Russia and look protests erupt in Iran, China won't actively step in against Russia and sanction Russia and look protests in China. Now South Africa won't seize a mega yacht and sanction Russia and suddenly we are under attack from ISIS. Also, we are receiving these warnings from all the US allies. Interesting indeed. And yes, I know the reasons for the protests but the US loves to ignite a violent powder keg in a country or to keep a current one going.
Somehow you seemed to have missed recent comments by our own security services - or they are simply inconvenient to your agenda and narrative
 

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JHB Pride is still going to go ahead with their planned march on Saturday.

Thoughts? Would you attend or is this threat credible enough to warrant staying at home?

I was planning on attending my first pride event, is it simply worth it though?
 

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JHB Pride is still going to go ahead with their planned march on Saturday.

Thoughts? Would you attend or is this threat credible enough to warrant staying at home?

I was planning on attending my first pride event, is it simply worth it though?
Many straight secret service guys undercover going to be acting gay.
 
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