Jihadist Forum Member Advocates a Chemical Weapon Attack on the Washington Metro Subway System
By SITE Institute
August 11, 2005
A member of a password-protected al-Qaeda affiliated message board provided the map of the Washington Metro subway system today, August 11, 2005, in addition to advocating an attack with chemical weapons upon this system to achieve “amazing results.” The author states that executing attacks within Saudi Arabia is “probably not effective,” so to ensure a “true effect in the world” attacks must be launched upon American soil with similar impact to that “done by Mohammad Atta.”
A full translation of the message is provided to our Intel Service members.
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications81905&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Thank you British Chick for the info.
As you've probably read on this forum; security in general
has been ramped up.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0805/081005c1.htm
DAILY BRIEFING
August 10, 2005
"Report cites increased risk of terrorist attack using chemicals"
By Chris Strohm
cstrohm@govexec.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Security experts say the risk of a terrorist attack involving chemical weapons remains relatively small but is increasing, while many chemical facilities in the United States still lack adequate safeguards almost four years after 9/11, according to a recent congressional report.
The Environmental Protection Agency reported in June that about 600 U.S. chemical facilities have vulnerability zones where more than 100,000 people could be affected in the event of a "worst-case" attack, according to a Congressional Research Service report. And about 2,200 other facilities potentially threaten between 10,000 and 100,000 residents. CRS concluded, however, that EPA methodology used for calculating the affected population may understate the potential worst-case consequences of a terrorist attack."