Posted on 10/23/2004 1:59:36 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- FBI investigators have made new arrests and developed leads that reinforce concerns that terrorists plan to strike around the presidential election, officials said Saturday, even though the CIA has discredited a person who told its agents of such a plot involving al-Qaida.
A senior FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some of the leads were culled from interviews with thousands of individuals that agents have conducted in the Muslim community.
The official would not be more specific, but said the FBI continues to have misgivings about possible al-Qaida intentions to launch an attack with the goal of affecting the elections.
Several people have been taken into custody recently on charges not related to terrorism, but officials are investigating whether they may have been involved in terror activities, said another law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
As for the person who warned the CIA, at least some of that individual's reporting no longer is seen as credible, said a U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official stressed, however, that a number of other sources point to terrorist activity around the election season.
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Maybe the terrorists are planning to take the 10,000 democrat lawyers in Florida hostage.
Islamists For Kerry.
These would be the FBI interviews that the ACLU is trying to have stopped.
Eff the ACLU.
"Maybe the terrorists are planning to take the 10,000 democrat lawyers in Florida hostage."
That would work. If they do, give them an F15 escort out of the country. And make a stop in NYC to get Petah, Dan and Tom.
and that would be bad, how?
I think there's absolutely no doubt that there are sleeper cells in place in our country, and probably also amateur groups who might decide to act. And that there are probably tens of thousands of Muslims who would be happy to support them.
The only reason they haven't already acted, IMHO, is that they have been uncertain what the effect would be. They probably know that the U.S. is not Spain or Manilla, but they may still decide to chance it. The leftists have given them plenty of reason to believe that terrorism works.
Perhaps not the place, but does anyone remember the "prophecy" thread from the other day?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1253947/posts
Sean David Morton, http://www.delphiassociates.org/ made the assertion on Coast to coast am, with George Noory,
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/9.html that terrorists have already attempted on 3 occasions, to detonate certain "devices" the last being on July 11, 2004. The suspected device was nuclear in nature and was detonated off the coast somewhere. The blast was large enough to cause a seismic reading. ALLEDGEDLY. I think if anyone has the know-how to get to the bottom of this it is "We the Freeple". anyone interested in joining the search, I`m currently coming up with nothing, and short of listening to the whole interview again, I don`t see a way to confirm or debunk.
An actual attack IMHO would backfire and get all the security moms on-board with Bush.
Whether people believe that Bush or Kerry would be better at fighting terrorism, another terrorist act would tend to reinforce the message that we are still at war with a determined enemy, and Americans don't like to change presidents in the middle of a war.
The second amendment gives the terrorists pause in their actions.
Don't make me smile. :( I'm supposed to be very sad about that thought...
Michigan.
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