Posted on 08/03/2004 7:36:03 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
More financial institutions than previously disclosed may be at risk of attack and an Al Qaeda operative has told British intelligence that the groups target date is early September, intelligence sources said yesterday.
The operative, described as credible by British intelligence, told his debriefers that the attack would take place '60 days before the US presidential election' on November 2, according to a former National Security Council official.
On September 2 President Bush is expected to address the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden.
Counter terrorism officials are analyzing data from a computer siezed in Pakistan last month to see if financial instutions in addition to the five disclosed last Sunday are at risk of attack, US officials said yesterday.
A US official familiar with the ongoing analysis of the computer said, 'There are reference to other buildings in the Al Qaeda computer data including a picture of the Bank of America building in San Francisco. 'There is mention of other places.'
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
as i was racking my brain as how a terrorist attack could hurt G.W., this is what i came up with, an earlier attack of a smaller magnitude and then a threat for another massive one if he is elected.
Funny how they prefer to attack the Republican convention rather than the Dem convention. One might almost think al Qaeda is more afraid of President Bush than Twinkle Toes Kerry.
2) The timing of early Sept. makes too much sense, and leads me to be EXTREMELY concerned now about those Arab websites that repeatedly mentioned AUGUST 5.
If we get by Aug. 5, then the next most-likely candidate would be Sept.
None of the 9/11 terrorists was "inserted" into the U.S. with anything like the sophistication used to put infiltrators, for example, into Iraq in the time leading up to the war. We are not dealing with people who have national resources readily available to them.
They flew in with fraudlulent visas, overstayed those visas, which, if you are a c op in FLA, you might recall was fumbled by the county mounties at a traffic stop. Then next bunch will have walked in from Mexico. They probably now live among tens to hundreds of thousands of illegal moslems in the U.S.
Dry up the vast swamp of illegals and the terrorists will stand out more, and MAYBE the donut-munchers will take the time to see if they are DRIVING here legally.
Make it 100X harder for them to get in, and you improve our chances of stopping the next attack by 100X or more.
Israel has proven that, under vastly more difficult circumstances, it is possible to keep terrorists out. The naysayers here are more interested in building and expanding a domestic police state because we do not defend our borders.
It was based on information that's several years old. The information for the 9/11/01 attacks was several years old at the time too.
There are two differences this time:
1. This information is more specific than the info the Clinton admin had
2. This administration has obviously already spranf into action.
Call the Israelis.
Now this is up my alley. We use an Israeli security fence at my correctional facility. Taut-wire it's called. Divided into zones and signals base when one of the barbed wires is deflected.
Ref. Safeguards Technology Inc.
Not at all. I share your concerns. But I just don't think people truly think through some of this stuff. There's no easy solution like "seal the borders" or "deport 'em all!"
Curious example... since the Great Wall didn't work. Neither did the Maginot Line. Both of those were also a mere fraction of our 22,000 miles of border.
It's easy to say "seal" the borders, and certainly more effort at border patrol should be (and believe it or not, has been) done, but it is useless without a general hardening of the country as a whole. It is perhaps even more important to make it difficult for them to move and communicate if they do get in. Because they will get in nomatter how high the wall.
No, but sealing borders, sweeping illegal moslems out, and reviewing every visa-holding and naturalized moslem for immigration fraud in the form of undisclosed connections to radical groups is a neccessary part of a complete solution.
Those, like Asa Hutchinson, who foot-drag on border control, will have the blood of the next terror victims on their hands.
Not true. Israel shut down terrorist infiltration from Gaza with a secuity fence.
Boortz is wrong. Need I remind you that back in 1996 the Clinton administration had unspecific information on an al Qaeda plot to hijack airliners and fly them into buildings?
Did that 'years old' information turn out to be a false alarm?
Dean and the rest of the Dems are politicizing this, just as they did within hours of the 9/11 attacks : "What did Bush know and when did he know it?"
This threat is considered credible and has been confirmed by British intelligence sources.
Oh geez. You working for the Kerry campaign or something?
I love it < / sarcasm > when folks try to blame everybody BUT the terrorists for terrorism.
Well said. I agree with you.
I'm getting tired of repeating this : we TRIED to build a fence, with motion sensors and floodlights....the environazis filied lawsuits and the whole thing is now tied up in court. WHY is this FACT so HARD to get through people's heads?? It's as bad as telling people there is no INS!
Anyone care to make a guess who this is?
OK, so now go to this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1167836/posts and accuse several hundred other Freepers of "working for the Kerry campaign or something."
Asa Hutchinson is revealed in this interview to be a treasonous slimeball. I highly reccomend it.
Ya Think! What a novel idea!
How do you know? How do you know they won't come in through Canada? How do you know they won't come in via Clinton's agreement to take Somali refugees? How do you know they won't be American born Muslims getting their orders via the internet?
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