Thanks ! FOX News Channel just broke this too !AP: Terrorists Planning Summer Attack
Excerpt:
17 minutes ago (at time of posting) The intelligence does not include a time, place or method of attack but is among the most disturbing received by the government since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a senior federal counterterrorism official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Tuesday.
Of most concern, the official said, is that terrorists may possess and use a chemical, biological or radiological weapon that could cause much more damage and casualties than a conventional bomb.
"There is clearly a steady drumbeat of information that they are going to attack and hit us hard," said the official, who described the intelligence as highly credible.
The official declined to provide any specifics about the sources of the information but said there was an unusually high level of corroboration.
Despite that, the official said there was no immediate plan to raise the nation's terrorism threat level from yellow, or elevated, to orange, or high. The threat level has been at yellow midpoint on the five-color scale since January.
Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller plan a news conference Wednesday to outline an intensive effort by law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security officials to detect and disrupt any potential plots. And the FBI plans to dispatch a bulletin to some 18,000 state and local law enforcement agencies warning of the threat.
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Thanks "Meek." I won't be able to catch the press conference live tomorrow. Hopefully some kind FReeper will do a live thread.
"If everybody had a pipebomb
Across the USA,
Then everybody'd be Bombin'
Like U-S-A-M-A"
The terrorists must feel encouraged with so much dissent going on. They probably figure that killing Americans before the election will yield a similar result as in Spain.
Thanks, Meek (as, I'm sure I'm included on your General Interest list to ping); but I just happened to see this in breaking news before I read my comments. And responded to poster.
Doesn't this scare the crap out of you? It sure does me. This original story. And others out there if one does a google news search. Can't believe it.
Of course - I CAN believe the threat; just haven't heard it put so bluntly before. I hope we're better prepared to stop it than before, is all I pray.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142483/posts
"I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home"