FBI Busts 'Real Deal' Terror Plot Aimed At NYC-NJ Underground Transit Link

Fox News ^ | 7/8/06

[Stars&StripesNE]

WASHINGTON — FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms smashed an Al Qaeda terrorist plot to attack New York City's underground transit link with New Jersey, law enforcement officials said Friday. Eight suspects — including an Al Qaeda loyalist arrested in Lebanon and two others in custody elsewhere — had hoped to pull off the attack in October or November of this year, federal officials said. But federal investigators working with their counterparts in six other countries intervened.

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Sunday talk show topic: "Bush administration's monitoring of internet chat rooms raises serious privacy issues"

[Falcon4.0]

This smells like intelligence gathering on the part of the terrorists. (i.e.) Plan attacks through different communication channels and see which ones trip Federal action. This guy seemed all to quick to start talking about what little details they planned and his roll in all of it. Anyone else get that feeling?

[cake_crumb]

He was picked up in Lebanon....their idea of a bleeding heart is, well, a bleeding heart.

[mtbopfuyn]

The person who leaked the investigation is "clearly someone who doesn't understand the fragility of international relations," Mershon said. "The release makes the investigation more difficult for us; it has greatly complicated what otherwise would be a very smooth relationship, a very smooth partnership, with a number of overseas allied agencies," Mershon added.

Is Bush ever going to start stringing up leakers?

[Stars&StripesNE]

If this administration doesn't track down the leakers and prosecute them, they will be complicit too. There appears to be some radical Muslim sympathizers working in top security jobs in DC.

[norwaypinesavage]

"the Financial District is well above sea level."

Note to terrorists: Water runs down hill. Maybe not so if Allah intervenes?

Sounds like a good plan: Lead decadent lifestyle to hide religious intentions. Bomb underwater tunnel. Water runs uphill to Financial district. Please send money. Allah FUBAR.

[antivenom]

I am so sick of the leaking...

It is time for this country to execute traitors...I am tired of the traitors using the media/press as if it were the 4th branch of government to undermine the other 3 branches and all citizens.

[OldCorps]

Lol, real deal as opposed to a fake wanna be terrorists in Miami. FBI is nothing more than a propaganda machine.

[Stars&StripesNE]

FBI and New York City officials would not go into details of the plot, but did confirm that the PATH system was the likely target, not the Holland Tunnel, as the Daily News reported.

[areafiftyone]

My god - Millions of people go thru that system. It would be a bloody horror if that ever happened.

[MizSterious]

Radical Islam sympathizers? Or do you suppose it might be more along the lines of democRAT sympathizers who want us to lose at any cost, so the 'Rats can be portrayed as the good guys? That's my guess.

[Stars&StripesNE]

You would be the type to be first on the screaming bandwagon if the Miami plotters had gotten the funding to carry out their plans to blow up the Sears Tower.

Maybe had Clinton not ignored Able Danger, we would be living in a different world today.

Your theory of ignore it and it will go away is why the DemocRATS are struggling today.

[Stars&StripesNE]

Radical Islam sympathizers? Or do you suppose it might be more along the lines of democRAT sympathizers who want us to lose at any cost, so the 'Rats can be portrayed as the good guys? That's my guess.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

[marta R]

"But federal investigators working with their counterparts in six other countries intervened."

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well good for the fbi I see bush's security programs are working, now all we have to do is wait for new york times to identify the six other countries that are working with us to mess this program up also.

[SampleMan]

"Despite the Best Efforts of the NYT..." should be the prefix to all such stories.

[jimbo123]

The plot was to unleash an army of suicide bombers and detonate backpack bombs on the PATH trains as they were traveling in the tunnels under the Hudson.

[fivecatsandadog]

backpack bombs... worn by most college students (in my town anyway), quite a number of who happen to be muslim....

[popdonnelly]

No terrorist attacks in five years. Somebody must be doing something right.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

There appears to be some radical Muslim sympathizers working in top security jobs in DC.

They're Clinton Democrats working in top security jobs. Same diff...enemy of my enemy (Bush) is my friend, but they're Democrats as opposed to straight Muslim sympathizers.