Wall Street Terror Threat From al Qaeda Non-specific

National Terror Alert ^ | March 14, 2008 | Staff

[jdm]

Law enforcement officials have alerted Wall Street firms of a new, non-specific terror threat centering on lower Manhattan.

Officials point out that the threat is based on unverified intelligence from overseas but was time-specific. The non-specific threat information suggests an al Qaeda terror would like to strike the city sometime this month, a security official said on condition of anonymity.

An NYPD spokesman said the department is aware of the threat and is taking added precautions. The spokesman stressed there is no credible information any plot is imminent, but extra measures will be in place until officials learn more about the overseas sourcing.

Officials with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task force and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security also downplayed this latest threat to Wall Street. Investigators said a security bulletin was issued as a precaution.

Homeland Security states there is no reason to believe an attack is imminent and that it is not giving much credibility to the threat.

“It is quite indirect … not a continuous chain of possession, meaning not U.S. sourcing,” said the official. “Of course you exercise caution and you always pay attention when you hear this, but there is nothing specific on targets, and it’s not even clear who the source of the threat is. It is uncorroborated.”

We will post additional details as they become available.

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[jdm]

This alert can't pertain to the recruiting station bombing earlier this month, since that occurred in mid-town Manhattan, not lower Manhattan.

The spokesman stressed there is no credible information any plot is imminent.

Well, if the plan is to attack sometime this month, as the article states, I'd say it's imminent!

[Red6]

Target the economic, security, and leadership of our nation; just random desperate acts of violence by the “religion of peace,” whose space we have invaded, that includes the US and Europe, even the Philippines and India.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

What's Gordon Gekko's take on this? ;)

[Nervous Tick]

>> Law enforcement officials have alerted Wall Street firms of a new, non-specific terror threat centering on lower Manhattan.

Oh No! What could it be?

Exploding hedge funds?
Toxic mortgage-backed securities?
Crashing market?

[Kimberly GG]

*ping* (for your thread, if you weren’t aware)

[Red in Blue PA]

Love that cell phone.

[ladyjane]

I sure wish freeperfromNJ could come back and give us an on-the-ground update of the level of security.

We used to get daily reports of the level of security in Penn Station, Times Square, and Madison Square Garden.

Her website says she was banned or suspended. It happened sometime around the Guiliani problem but she wasn’t a Rudi fan so I don’t know what happened.

Anybody know if she’s back posting under another name?

[johnny7]

I’m sure Nancy Pelosi’s on top of this...