New Intel Source on Al Qaeda Led to Orange Alert

The nation's terror alert level was raised to orange in the weeks leading up to the holiday season because of threats that Al Qaeda (search) was possibly looking to use explosives on Air France flights, Fox News has confirmed.

For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a U.S. intelligence source was able to give officials such specific information about how Usama bin Laden's (search) terror group may be planning imminent attacks in the United States using commercial airliners, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News. The source provided strategic and tactical details of how the terror network wanted to carry out terror attacks on American political and economic targets.

Old Sarge will not be posting to this thread.

He is currently self-administering stress relief, in the form of bashing his head against his K-pot, after reading the above article.

Sarge will return to duty, once the Demoral kicks in, and his helmet is exchanged for a non-dented one.

Thank You.

The new intelligence source also revealed that Las Vegas was a target on "12/31"

Obviously bogus ... as we all learned in the anthrax attack, foreign terrorists never refer the date as "month/day", but always use "day/month". This was the primary indication that the anthrax letters were written by a domestic terrorist, probably a disgruntled American microbiologist.

Applying the same logic, this latest bombing threat is probably the work of a domestic Christian Francophobe.

<-sarcasm off>

a U.S. intelligence source was able to give officials such specific information about how Usama bin Laden's (search) terror group may be planning imminent attacks in the United States using commercial airliners

We now are validated! Also Vegas 'was' a NYE target!

U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence officials are cryptic about the new source, whose identity is a closely guarded secret. But USA Today reported that the information could have come from high-tech surveillance.

On Dec. 5, U.S. officials received specific information that Al Qaeda planned to use explosives on two Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles on Christmas Day or New Year's Eve. Air France (search) subsequently canceled six flights during the holidays based on U.S. terrorism concerns. From Dec. 5 to Dec. 19 the new source revealed potential threats to two more Air France flights and an AeroMexico flight, USA Today reported.

The new intelligence source also revealed that Las Vegas was a target on "12/31" and that up to three other international flights could be blown up or hijacked and crashed into buildings. The Department of Homeland Security had concerns that such flights could be flown from London, Paris and Mexico. Entire article here

Yep which proves yet again that Freepers are ahead of the information coming from the news organizations.

Piper much thanks to you and to all the freepers who have been gathering & analyzing all of this information that comes in. It's not a job I have time to do here so for those of you who do take the time to do it I appreciate it very much.

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