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Intelligence gathered in Iraq prompts warning of terrorist plot (against NY)
Mercury News ^ | Oct. 6, 2005 | JONATHAN S. LANDAY AND SHANNON MCCAFFREY

Posted on 10/06/2005 6:22:53 PM PDT by FairOpinion

A recent U.S. military raid on a terrorist group's hideout south of Baghdad, Iraq, netted intelligence that prompted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to warn Thursday that the metropolis' sprawling subway system faced an explicit threat of terrorist attacks.

U.S intelligence and law enforcement officials in Washington, however, cautioned that the information that triggered Bloomberg's warning was shaky.

"The intelligence community believes that, although the information is specific, it is of doubtful credibility," said Russ Knocke, the spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.

Knocke said U.S. experts were continuing to evaluate the information but had passed it on to New York and New Jersey officials early on out of an "abundance of caution."

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: attack; iraq; ny; subwayattack; terrorism; terrorist
If we weren't in Iraq, we wouldn't have discovered it.

This way we have a chance of preventing the attack.

What does Cindy Sheehan say about this?

1 posted on 10/06/2005 6:22:57 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
What does Cindy Sheehan say about this?

She will say that there would have been no plot but for our presence in Iraq, because al Qaeda is only trying to end our occupation there.

2 posted on 10/06/2005 6:28:45 PM PDT by Maceman (Fake But Accurate)
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To: Maceman

The problem with that argument is that it doesn't explain the 1993 WTC and 9-11 attacks.


3 posted on 10/06/2005 6:30:01 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: Maceman; FairOpinion
What does Cindy Sheehan say about this?

She endorsed it.

4 posted on 10/06/2005 6:56:35 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: PhiKapMom; hispanarepublicana

Check this story out.....do you think it has something to do with the Norman bombing? Did th jihadi stuff on Joel Jihad's computer lead the Feds/Army to the Iraqi info? Just a guess....


5 posted on 10/06/2005 7:07:25 PM PDT by indcons (Please FReepmail PhiKapMom and Indcons if you want on/off the Norman Bombing ping list.)
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