When this thread was started with the Debka article on Nov. 3, it looked like tin foil stuff for many. And of course most of us would prefer that we were just being paranoid.
But now it's looking more and more like there is a great deal of truth in those bits and pieces of information.
Another point, that is not being made significantly enough, is that the government raised the bar for raising the threat alert.
"In September, the government raised the bar for changing the threat level, saying it would only elevate the status if there was specific and credible information about an attack."
If they raised the bar, that means that now they do have strong specific information, maybe based on the old definition we would be at red alert.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/22/TERROR.TMP