I feel tweaked up on my sensors.
What do you base your impressions on?
And if 10 is attack is certain within 24 hours--how would you rate your sensing?
I know that this was put on TM yesterday, but WND has the full story now:
Al-Qaida prepares for major attack over Christmas: has scouted civilian targets in Europe
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42083
or for discussion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307809/posts
Al-Qaida prepares for major attack over Christmas
Intelligence sources say terror group has scouted civilian targets in Europe
Posted: December 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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Several agencies have intercepted electronic communications pointing to al-Qaida's plans to launch a major attack over the next two weeks, Western intelligence sources said, according to Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service.
The sources said al-Qaida was planning to use Islamic subcontractors to carry out major attacks against civilian targets in Europe.
Al-Qaida has been gathering assets in several European Union countries and Russia over the past two months, the sources said. At this point the intelligence agencies have determined that al-Qaida has been scouting potential targets and has already called supporters to initiate strikes.
Some targets in Western Europe include NATO headquarters in Brussels, a railroad hub packed with holiday travelers and Istanbul, Turkey. The sources said al-Qaida cells in Europe are flushed with operatives that fought the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
Other leading al-Qaida targets include Moscow or St. Petersburg. Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev said Russia's domestic intelligence agency has received reports of a planned major terrorist attack in St. Petersburg.
Patrushev said unidentified people were seen taking video footage of children's hospitals and clinics. He said terrorists would be most likely to strike around the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
European countries have been working overtime to uncover al-Qaida network cells. Patrushev reported that an al-Qaida cell was discovered in the North Caucasus and a senior operative was being interrogated.
Last night I felt something was up but nothing is really strong. However, I have been tired all month and sick for the last two weeks, finally feeling better today but still dull and tired. My Threat O'Meter is not functioning properly. However, my Mother has been saying, for some time now, she thinks they will try something Christmas. She is fairly in tune. I don't see Christmas here in the States as a hit because people are in their homes (unless it was a residential strike or air borne thing that covered vast areas). If they were to get at us over Christmas they would go after our troops (God Bless them) in Iraq. But they just did that. So do they have another large suprise attack planned on them? I know all the daily attacks are suprises but an out of the ordinary again is what I mean.