Al-Qaeda Causes Yemen Blackout, is U.S. Next?

Adam S.R.
Suntactics.com
June 26, 2014

Just recently the Israeli National News Arutz Sheva reported that Yemen’s national power grid has been successfully attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists. The mainstream media is silent, possibly due to the fear that the U.S. might be next on Al-Qaeda’s agenda.

Yemen is a nation of 24 million, and has been an important asset for the War on Terror during that time. Yemen was a key player in the death of Anwar al-Awlaki, the Islamic militant and a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved in planning terrorist operations for Al-Qaeda.

The terrorist group AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), based in Yemen, is notorious for the aggressive terror operations against the United States. AQAP used grenade launchers and mortars to destroy Yemen’s transmission towers, plunging the whole country into a blackout.

But why should the U.S. be concerned about what happened in Yemen?

For starters, the U.S. power grid is just as easy to take down as the Yemen power grid, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has even said that even the smallest home-grown terror attack could take down the entire U.S. power grid for at least 18 months, possibly longer:

FERC chairman John Wellinghoff: “Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer.” -Wall Street Journal

If just 9 out of 55,000 electric substations were attacked it could collapse the entire U.S. power grid, FERC began looking at this issue just this year in response to requests from Senator Dianne Feinstein after last year’s sub-station attack in San Jose, California.

It’s obvious that Al-Qaeda is not done with the United States, and its hatred is growing. Attacking 9 substations would be easy for Al-Qaeda, just look at their past work on 9/11/2001 which was the most sophisticated and well-timed terrorist event in history, it can happen again. Proof that islamic radicalism is growing; just look at what’s happening in Iraq with ISIS.

The U.S. cannot afford to ignore the Yemen terrorist attack that caused the nationwide blackout, nor can it afford to forget what happened on 9/11. The people who are not prepared for a nationwide blackout in the U.S. will face real hardship if they do not prepare today. Have at least 18 months of storable food and water, and other essentials like a survival kit that contains a portable solar charger, batteries, and LED lights that can be taken away from the city which will inevitably be in chaos if there was ever a nationwide blackout in the U.S.

We recommend our emergency power outage kits that has a portable solar panel that can charge any electronic device that recharges from a USB connection (ex: smartphones, GPS, music players, etc.), these emergency power outage kits also include USB batteries and LED lights so you can solar charge the batteries and have endless lighting wherever you decide to go.