Posted on 10/30/2006 3:31:31 PM PST by Types_with_Fist
Edited on 11/03/2006 9:35:49 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Also at jihadwatchTerrorist suspects plot to set wildfire in California, says paper
Terrorist suspects, who plotted to bomb train tunnels in New York, also planned to set a wildfire in California, a newspaper report said on Monday.
The mastermind, Assem Hammoud, who is now in custody, discussed the idea with a number of co-conspirators, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The report said U.S. and Lebanese officials discovered the plot by monitoring the conspirators' e-mail traffic on a website used by Islamic militants, and by scouring Hammoud's computer and his Beirut home and office after his arrest April 27.
"There have been suggestions that this was a lot further along than it was," the paper quoted one U.S. intelligence official as saying, referring to earlier reports that the suspects only plotted to bomb New York tunnels.
No evidence, however, indicated that the alleged co- conspirators were about to enter an operational phase - as some U. S. and Lebanese authorities have said in recent days - or that they had even decided to go forward with the plot, U.S. intelligence officials were quoted as saying.
Hammoud and as many as seven other accomplices were only on the stage of still searching for ways to strike the United States when the plot was disrupted, the report said.
Hammoud, 31, has been charged in Lebanon with being mastermind of the plot. He has reportedly confessed to the plot and to pledging an oath of allegiance to Al Qaida.
Two other men are being held in undisclosed locations overseas, and authorities have linked five others to the alleged plot.
Source: Xinhua
thanks for the ping. I remember the threat of the jihadi's to start wildfires in the USA a while back. Not very 'imaginative' if you ask me....(grin)
Think about it, it would be very effective. On a larger scale, multiple fires. Were they to take credit for it, of course, claiming responsibility is the key to engendering fear. Small attacks on transportation or commerce, think malls, same thing. It disrupts the normal social fabric, which is at the core of terrorism.
Will probably have to wait til next year for that one.
So. The lefty environmentalist and their buddy Dem legislators merely set the stage for a possible terrorist arsoning.
".....claiming responsibility is the key to engendering fear."
That is the 'rub' though to the 'plan'. I agree that it could be effective as a 'terror tactic' of sorts, but it is a far cry from the kind of spectacular 'event' they are seeking.
Most people are able to be evacuated from fire zones, so they would not get the kill ratio they seek. Just some thoughts....
Got rope?
Good thing those firefighters are right there to put out the fire that that plane wreck is going to cause.
JEEEZZ!
I remember hearing about them suing. I didn't follow after that.
What an incredible photo!!!
I don`t know about that..I`m pretty certain right after he won the fires broke out. I know it did because I remember Arnold telling the press what he was doing about it.
the fire scorched off all his hair. that's the ticket.
This certainly had to have been a planned event. I mean, what was it, one or two days after the announcement that the Santa Ana winds had started? I may be wrong but it seems that this is becoming an annual event. Maybe Homeland Security needs to gets its head into the act before the winds arrive.
Here is the biggest and best and the U.S. has exactly zero of them. The U.S. Forest Service turned down their use in the 2000 Los Alamos fire even though FEMA recommended their use.
http://go.to/waterbomber
The plane is flying VERY low rpm - check out the props or else this is a REAL fast camera
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