Posted on 08/11/2005 7:19:26 PM PDT by americaprd
LOS ANGELES - The FBI has warned police that al-Qaida cells might use fuel trucks as weapons to attack Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, but officials stressed Thursday the warning was based on uncorroborated intelligence.
The warning was distributed Tuesday via a computer network by FBI officials in Los Angeles to law enforcement agencies primarily in California, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
Though intelligence bulletins usually describe how reliable the information is, this one carried no such statement.
The bulletin warned police that terrorists could use fuel tankers in assaults on the three cities. The warning has not been substantiated, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
The intelligence originated from FBI headquarters in Washington. It was not immediately clear why the bulletin was sent without details on its reliability.
Eimiller noted that FBI officials often notify police of possible threats, regardless of how accurate the information might be.
"Information at all levels is shared with law enforcement," she said.
Yep....all the threatened cities are in blue states. The moral: If ya wanna be safe, become a red state. The muzzies don't mess with us.
Who knows how many of these "alerts" have caused the muzzies to rethink their plans? Probably not a lot, but it would be hard to imagine that they didn't prevent at least a few.
If it only prevented ONE it was well worth it.
If you can't trust a psychotic murdering muslim to tell the truth, who can you trust? What is this world coming to? Next you'll be telling me that our trusted news sources or elected officials also lie.
Why the map?
The FBI in Los Angeles has issued an advisory, warning it has information that al-Qaida could try to use trucks to ram gas tankers, Cable News Network reported Thursday.
That's just it. We'll never know the things that *didn't* happen. But I think it is safe to say that there are things which have not happened that would have, except for positive actions taken in the last few years.
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure its true.
Well, we know they want to strike, we know that they can strike. Yet, since 9-11 it's been nothing. Either they haven't because of interruptions or they fear reprisals ... it's a win-win scenario for the Bush Administration.
LA, NY, Chicago.
This can't possibly be true because OBL said he would attack states that voted for Bush.
Well, yes, but this is no time to get cocky. :-)
"They have the will to destroy us, but lack the means. We have the means to destroy them, but lack the will. It is a race to see who gets what first." -- B. Netanyahu
Unless there is something CREDIBLE and UNIQUE about terrorist threats, I really wish they would stop scaring everyone with this vauge, bogus info.
It would be more effective to just show the planes crashing into the WTC on national TV and every major newspaper once every three months, to keep people pissed off and remind them to stay vigilant.
Love the MC5 reference in your tagline!
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I wouldn't bet on it. Too many people have their heads in the sand and don't see the overall threat of Islam. They just look at a few radical terrorists and think once they are dead or caught the threat is over.
At LAX on Wednesday morning after I had returned from Chicago, there were a ton of cops trying to clear things out all of the sudden. I hiked off because they said they wouldn't allow my C lot bus to stop in front of the United terminal. Something's up.
I don't think there'd be a dome left standing here or anywhere else if they bomb us...
We should be so lucky as to have that result...
"While some may poo-poo these warnings as knee-jerk sorts of actions... I say... If the intel picture is sizing up to look like maybe somebody is going to try something... then get the info out there.
Sometimes just the broadcast might make a cell re-think, reschedule, or cancel a plan. Or at least if there is something to look for, maybe the right person will see something in just enough time to do some good."
I agree, and just wanted to share that our family used the American Hiroshima Threat to up our preparations another notch. Not because I thought America might get nuked last week, was not sure about that, but simply because it had a date attached to the threat, and sometimes a deadline is a powerful thing. We built a bomb shelter in our basement, and put in a few more supplies.
I was interviewed by the Owner of a Mothering web site - many families I am in contact with on the web are in fact preparing for a variety of WMD scenarios, and this interview just showed up on her site this week.
Here is the link:
http://www.homespunslingsnthings.com/providentliving.htm
Jenny
BTTT!!
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