Posted on 07/31/2004 3:45:34 PM PDT by tmp02
Edited on 07/31/2004 4:31:44 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Big Apple Terror?
Sources: Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations
ABCNEWS.com
N E W Y O R K, July 31, 2004? ABC News has learned that federal and New York City officials have received credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city. |
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| Sources at several law enforcement agencies tell ABC News that an "overseas source" has provided the information about the threat to New York and that it is more significant than the usual "chatter" intercepted from likely terrorists that has prompted warnings in the past. Officials from dozens of local and federal agencies met into the night Friday and again this morning. "Intelligence reporting indicates that al Qaeda continues to target for attack commercial and financial institutions, as well as international organizations, inside the United States," the New York City Police Department said in a statement released today on the "ongoing al Qaeda threat." "The NYPD recommends that corporate and institutional security directors review their protection of HVAC systems, parking installations, and security in general," the statement added. "The alert level for New York City remains unchanged at 'orange' or 'high.'" Border Worries Intelligence sources say al Qaeda plans to move non-Arab terrorists across the border with Mexico. Authorities already have in custody a woman of Pakistani-origin arrested after crossing into Texas. She carried a South African passport with several of the pages torn out, $7,000 in cash and an airplane ticket to New York. New York is already on heightened alert for the Republican National Convention, which meets at Madison Square Garden in a month and will bring scores of high government officials to town. The sources tell ABC News that Wall Street firms may be among the targeted U.S. corporations based in New York City. Which corporations or how many may be targeted has not been revealed. Suicide Truck Bombings Particularly disturbing to authorities were the intelligence reports that the attack may involve one or more suicide truck bombings, a tactic never seen in the United States, but one widely used by terrorists elsewhere. "I think they want to try and shake our psyche again," says Jerry Hauer, an ABC News consultant and former director of New York City's Office of Emergency Management. "And I think the easy types of attacks right now are car bombs, truck bombs." Law enforcement officials acknowledge such bombs are extremely difficult to prevent. As to the timing of any planned attack, sources say it could take place between now and Election Day in November. As the government tries to verify the reports of the threat, there are no plans to raise the national threat level, a senior Bush administration official tells ABC News. ABCNEWS' Pierre Thomas and Bob Jamieson contributed to this report. |
How can a suicide blow up the entire stock exchange?
It's all crap now!
LOL! I love those two old dudes!
What about the extra leg?
I don't what kind of machine guns the FRB police carry, but they look impressive.
And there are barricades by the NYSE and some near the FRB.
I've lived in this neighborhood for more than a few years, and I can now tell when the alert level is up, just by watching the FRB cops.
People can dig.
Remember the Fox News Pulse report from I think last year that talked about a tunnel leading from Mexico to a town across the border?
That depends on the magnitude of the attack(s) and government spin. IMO, it will take a LOT of small scale attacks or one massive (50,000+ dead) to wake enough sheeple from their complacent slumber. Come to think of it, it might indeed take 100,000+ dead.
You can't reason with them. My mother won't vote for GB because, GBS did something to stop my step dad from getting a new set of false teeth thru VA?????!!!! Go figure. I couldn't get her to listen but she said she didn't like Kerry either "something funny about him". She's a flower child who travels all over the country and said she would vote for Nader if I wanted her to . She's in TX though so safe. I just hope she's not registered in other states though too:') If someone offered her a pack of smokes (for the step dad) to register.....
Except for self defense. Bloomberg might as well wear a red star on his sleeve.
Not new news for us here in the SW. Just this past week NM received its own terror warning. Go to the FR NM topics page and read several articles on this, especially the Tombstone Tumbleweed. The official Border Patrol line is silence, but some agents are talking anonymously. They have captured some ME types but others have gotten away.
Of course, any attack validates Bush's axis of evil strategy -- attack them there before they attack us (again). The only thing I can fault Bush on is the lack of border security, both with Mexico and with ME illegals overstaying visas, no central immigration list, etc. The latter may be coming but probably not soon enough. The former is not in the cards as the admin is pandering to the Latin vote.
But still, with suicidal jihadis rollling into Manhattan South with truck bombs and AK74s....it wont be pretty
Yeah, why wouldn't this just warm the heart of Michael Moore and his pinhead followers?
It just means that the powers that be are taking this very seriously and brainstorming on how to prevent these attacks.
But can't you still drive by these places? Suicide bombers in cars/trucks.
Then why did Kerry use the war hero appeal at the convention? It seems that he suddenly is trying to carve out a Commander in Chief image of tough guy. Sure, girlie man with pink tie, sure.
Here's the guy who says he would like to be CIC of a "stronger America!"
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