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Al Qaeda May Be Plotting Holiday Attacks
CBS News (excerpt) ^

Posted on 11/10/2006 5:34:50 PM PST by HAL9000

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Intelligence agencies have been warned that al Qaeda may be planning to attack air and rail travel in Europe in actions that may occur during the busy holiday travel season, CBS News has learned exclusively.

In separate interviews with Arab and other intelligence sources, CBS News has been told that the warnings come from interrogations of al Qaeda suspects who recently left Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"One suspect said plans for repeating the Heathrow attempt (a reference to the failed 'liquid bomb' plot interrupted in August) were all prepared. It is now a matter of taking action," said one Arab official who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media. "Al Qaeda's strategy appears to be raising the pressure in Europe."

In a move that has been puzzling intelligence agencies, al Qaeda has been withdrawing well-trained Arab fighters from the mountains and battlefields of Afghanistan.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; airplanes; alqaeda; alqaida; bojinka2; eurabia; europe; globaljihad; heathrow; jihad; london; masstransit; railservice; rop; terrorattacks; terrorism; trains; transit; waronterror; wot
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1 posted on 11/10/2006 5:34:51 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Quick lets elect more democRats to pacify them.
2 posted on 11/10/2006 5:36:43 PM PST by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: HAL9000
In a move that has been puzzling intelligence agencies, al Qaeda has been withdrawing well-trained Arab fighters from the mountains and battlefields of Afghanistan.

Could be that they're simply losing and retreating.
3 posted on 11/10/2006 5:37:01 PM PST by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: HAL9000

Haven't we heard this before every major (and not so major) holiday for the last 5 years?


5 posted on 11/10/2006 5:37:45 PM PST by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: HAL9000

Coupla nukes down their chimneys will fix that.


6 posted on 11/10/2006 5:38:07 PM PST by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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To: HAL9000

and if this were to happen, do you think any americans would wake up? no.

I forget if it was Barnes or Mort on FNC tonight - who said, "its obvious that this America, needs TWO pearl harbors before they wake up". well put.


7 posted on 11/10/2006 5:39:02 PM PST by oceanview
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To: HAL9000

The world needs to be shaken up. I hope it does not happen, but until an entire city is lost, noone will take the threat of islamofascists seriously.

One day it will come out how much scary shiat the governments stopped from happening while we shop at Best Buy, fusss over installing granite countertops, and opbsess over Britney Spears marriage.


8 posted on 11/10/2006 5:39:23 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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The world needs to be shaken up. I hope it does not happen, but until an entire city is lost, noone will take the threat of islamofascists seriously.

As long as it's a blue one.

9 posted on 11/10/2006 5:40:18 PM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (I dare call it treason.)
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To: oceanview

I didn't see it but I can assure you it wasn't Mort.


10 posted on 11/10/2006 5:40:20 PM PST by Hildy (RUDY GUILIANI FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008)
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To: HAL9000

What? Even when their party won the election? /sarcasm


11 posted on 11/10/2006 5:40:32 PM PST by ladyinred (RIP my precious Lamb Chop)
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To: Malacoda

yes, but this time - AQ just won the US elections.


12 posted on 11/10/2006 5:40:53 PM PST by oceanview
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To: HAL9000

I won't give a fiddler's fugh, because I voted conservative straight down the line.


13 posted on 11/10/2006 5:41:17 PM PST by Solamente (Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
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To: Hildy

OK.


14 posted on 11/10/2006 5:41:20 PM PST by oceanview
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To: HAL9000

Yeah, yeah. We know. Infidels die. Blah blah. get on with it already.


15 posted on 11/10/2006 5:43:15 PM PST by nitejohnboy
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To: HAL9000
Oh, wow! What a brilliant deduction.

Tell me Grammaw Nancy, will it still be just a problem and not a war when the terrorist bomb in the California mall kills some of your grandkids?

16 posted on 11/10/2006 5:43:57 PM PST by Redleg Duke (¡Salga de los Estados Unidos de América, invasor!)
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To: oceanview

It was Fred.


17 posted on 11/10/2006 5:45:21 PM PST by left-handed_right-minded (HALT Hillary 2008)
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To: Hildy
I didn't see it but I can assure you it wasn't Mort.

I saw it. It WAS Mort. I think he surprised everyone on the panel, including Krauthammer, with that remark because it was blunt and truthful.

18 posted on 11/10/2006 5:45:27 PM PST by Kieri (A Grafted Branch (Rom. 11))
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To: oceanview

I'd bet it was Fred. But he's wrong. If it happens again, George Bush will be blamed, for having had the NERVE to fight back. Maybe the new majority will designate "A City For Sacrifice", to attone for us having the stones to fight tne moslems. She could make it a truly democrat process by having we, her lowly flock, vote for which city we'd like to see leveled.
I vote for San Francisco


19 posted on 11/10/2006 5:49:07 PM PST by nitejohnboy
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

eerm I live in a blue state....


20 posted on 11/10/2006 5:49:31 PM PST by Soothesayer (The end times are nigh! Repent and die!)
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