FBI warns of potential terror attacks on public buildings (issued 10/6/08)

Deep Background - MSNBC ^ | 10-6-08 | Jim Popkin

[STARWISE]

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives.

Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States."

*snip*

According to the note obtained by NBC News, a "recently discovered audio recording of al-Qa‘ida training sessions conducted several years ago provides instruction to potential suicide terrorists on seizing a publicly accessible building and damaging or destroying it with explosive charges."

[albie]

Expect this to be a daily event in the event of a BO win.

[1035rep]

bttt

[STARWISE]

Snip

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In a half hour video message, California-native Adam Gadahn urged Pakistanis to unite against their government and U.S. forces, and taunted Americans over their economic crisis, relating it to their military interventions.

“The enemies of Islam are facing a crushing defeat, which is beginning to manifest itself in the expanding crisis their economy is experiencing,” said Gadahn, in a clip of the message distributed by the SITE Intelligence Group,

http://www.siteintelgroup.org/

a Washington-based monitor of militant Web sites.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081005/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_american_video

[stlnative]

bump

[STARWISE]

Terror threat in UK ‘approaching critical’
The terrorist threat in Britain is approaching critical as police and MI5 face an increase in activity by al-Qaeda militants, senior security officials have disclosed.

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Snippet:

The threat level is at the “severe end of severe” according to sources who say the level of “chatter” among terrorist cells has increased in recent months.

The security services say they are now operating at full stretch to counter the elevated threat.

Britain’s close relationship with the US has been particularly inflammatory after cross-border raids into Pakistan by American forces.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3124098/Terror-threat-in-UK-approaching-critical.html

[amom]

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[STARWISE]

I don’t think very highly of Richard Clarke, but here’s his take:

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Richard Clarke: Al Qaeda Might Try To Swing Election To McCain
By Greg Sargent - October 6, 2008, 4:42PM

Counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke dares to broach publicly the scenario that most will only discuss in private: The possibility of a terror attack, or the release of another Bin Laden tape, right on the eve of the election:

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U.S. intelligence and security officials are worried. They admit that there is nothing concrete that suggests another attack, but they fear that al Qaeda may try something, maybe even in the United States...

At the very least, expect another Halloween video from the scary man in the cave...

Even more likely is the possibility that al Qaeda would hope the attack would benefit John McCain.

Opinion polls, which, as noted above, al Qaeda reads closely, suggest that an attack would help McCain. Polls in Europe and the Middle East also suggest an overwhelming popular support there for Barack Obama. Al Qaeda would not like it if there were a popular American president again.

(end of Clarke’s take)

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When dealing with this topic, it’s always worth recalling that CIA analysts reportedly did conclude that Bin Laden had released the tape in order to help Bush stay in power, partly because his presidency made such a handy recruiting tool.

John Kerry has said that the Bin Laden tape released days before Election Day 2004 helped tip the election to Bush. But Kerry and his aides were caught off guard, and even alarmed, by the surfacing of the tape. One imagines — indeed, one has no doubt — that the Obama team is already thinking this through right now.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/richard_clarke_al_qaeda_might.php

[freema]

Ping

[stlnative]

Bloomberg TV
just had a ticker that 2 bombs were set off just outside the green zone in baghdad while US Deputy Secretary of State visits.

[beckysueb]

This is much bigger than Ayers.

[beckysueb]

I read on a thread here earlier that there is a computer that picks up internet chatter and predicts trends for the future using the information it gathers. Its called bot something. It predicted something on a larger scale than 9/11 was going to happen on October 7th, 2008.

[Son House]

Ayer’s wife, Bernadine Dohrn, lawyer, leader, secretary of the Weather Underground, or the Bin Laden of Domestic Terrorist, unrepentant because the FBI broke the law in pursuing them, and they go unpunished for their Terrorism, from;

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Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group’s path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago’s streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6078589535743610981&ei=TcToSISuDYKM_QHws5n4Dw&q=Underground+bernadine+dohrn

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ping behind Meek.

[Want off my unreliable ping list? Please feel free to cuss me out. Want on my ping list? Just ‘ax’.]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

And pinging behind STARWISE. — Uups.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“This seen by the left can also be an attempt to shore up votes for McCain through fear tactics.”

That would make the left happy, but the more they talk about it, the more the swing voters will think.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“If it does happen (goodness forbid), they’ll say McCain, Palin, Bush, Cheney, and Rove planned it.”

Maybe Ayers could be their spokes-nut.

[southland]

book

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ah! I never quite looked at it that way:

“Even more likely is the possibility that al Qaeda would hope the attack would benefit John McCain. Opinion polls, which, as noted above, al Qaeda reads closely, suggest that an attack would help McCain. Polls in Europe and the Middle East also suggest an overwhelming popular support there for Barack Obama. Al Qaeda would not like it if there were a popular American president again.”

So they think that the Obamessiah would steal bin Laden’s thunder?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Maybe Ayers and bin Laden could meet somewhere and swap notes.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I would have thought the same way. But since the terrorists love Obama, how does that make bin Laden feel? Fewer autographs. His painting on the cave wall replaced by Obamamessiah ....