Posted on 10/06/2008 11:20:14 PM PDT by 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."
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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."
(Excerpt) Read more at deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com ...
BUMP!
A friend of mine is an airline mechanic at JFK in NY and she emailed me the press release that was forwarded to their department about elevated alerts.
I sure hope this all just threats...
...and that’s the thing about these threads: they are frequent, induce hysteria, and are invariably wrong, which everyone forgets the next time one shows up. Yet they tap into that part of our brains that says “but it just takes ONE that’s true, and what if this one is it?” For years we’ve heard hundreds of reports that a terrorist attack is imminent, “chatter” has spiked, threats have been vaguely yet distinctly made, the date is special, the Moon is in the house of Ares, etc. - and nothing happened. Thing is, it seems an awful lot of people deep down WANT one of these reports to be true; as a culture, we’ve become so comfortable, complacent, and bored that we WANT some horror inflicted on us to stir us to noble patriotic action.
...sorry, when’s Survivor on next?
I thought “California-native Adam Gadahn” got splattered a couple of months ago.
I read the instructions and the first comment echoed exactly what I was thinking why are we posting instructions on how to take over and blow up a building!! Then I looked at the source, NBC, and it all made sense.
I guess that's why I buy a lottery ticket every Friday.
FBI in Desperate race to Prevent “OCTOBER SURPRISE” Terror Attack
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The formation of al-Qaida training camps inside Pakistan has been a major concern among U.S. security agencies since at least 2004, when Washington issued a rare intelligence directive to border agents to check young Pakistani male travelers –including Americans – for physical signs of military training.
They were asked to look for “rope burns,” “unusual bruises,” “scars” and other possible injuries suffered from obstacle courses, firearms or explosives.
“Many of the individuals trained in the Pakistani camps are destined to commit illegal activities in the United States,” warned the two-page DHS advisory that launched the special action.
According to another internal DHS document obtained by us, the department more recently directed customs officers to escort passengers identified by “one-day lookouts” to secondary inspection, where they are subjected to a battery of questions to determine if they have visited terror camps in Pakistan.
American citizens of Pakistani descent also are under increased scrutiny. Over the past few years, U.S. authorities have arrested or investigated several Pakistani-American men who have trained at the camps during trips to Pakistan. One camp used photos of President Bush for target practice.
“The camps are a big concern,” said a DHS official, who requested anonymity. “We are questioning U.S. citizens, as well as Pakistani nationals, as they come back to the states if the computer says they might have terrorist ties.”
FBI Director Robert Mueller earlier this month cited the threat posed by the Pakistani terror-training camps while briefing Congress about the bureau’s expanded investigative powers, which officially go into effect Oct. 1.
“We know that in western Pakistan now that there are camps in which individuals are being trained. The U.K. knows that very well because individuals who were involved in the 2005 attacks and later attacks had traveled to Pakistan for training in the camps and then come back,” Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee.
“I believe the American public would want us to do what is necessary to try to identify persons who had traveled to Pakistan, whatever their heritage, whatever their background, whatever their ethnicity, to determine who has gone to Pakistan to obtain that training and may be coming back to the United States to undertake an attack.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., complained the new investigative rules would give FBI agents license to racially profile citizens.
http://smithfiles.com/2008/09/29/fbi-in-desperate-race-to-prevent-october-surprise-terror-attack/
John Conyers .. all Rats ... all idiocy and predictability .. all the time.
Apparently, he’s still an earthly oxygen waste.
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Adam Gadahn, al Qaeda’s American spokesman, from his latest tape.
Adam Gadahn, al Qaeda’s American spokesman, has resurfaced in a newly released videotape, squashing the rumors that he died in a US airstrike earlier this year. Gadahn was rumored to have been killed in a January 2008 airstrike in North Waziristan that killed Abu Laith al Libi, a senior al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan.
In the tape, titled “The Believer Isn’t Stung From The Same Hole Hole Twice,” Gadahn appeals to Muslims Pakistan to unite under al Qaeda’s banner and end the feuds between various ethnic and tribal groups.
“It’s time for you to put aside tribal, ethnic, and territorial differences and petty worldly disputes not just for now but forever and unite to restore the glories of your forefathers and hasten, Allah willing, the defeat of the Zionist-Crusader enemy and the establishment of the Islamic state, the Ummah, the so eagerly anticipated,” Gadahn said, according to a partial translation provided by Laura Mansfield.
He called on Muslims in Pakistan to “fight the Crusaders and their agents wherever they are and don’t be intimidate by their weak and futile plots.”
Gadahn also mentioned the US “economic meltdown,” proving he is aware of the current crisis and the tape is not a remix of old information.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/adam_gadahn_resurfac.php
“They’re idiots if they think that a terror strike in the US before the election would have the same effect on the voters as the Spanish bombing did.”
1. They ARE idots.
2. What makes you think they don’t want the war on terror to continue? THEY are empowered by having an active enemey. If Obama is elected and pulls out of the middle east, they don’t have any angry puppets to lead anymore.
Surrender to Islamists...well I say NUTS!
Even the cowards in NBC want to live...
Cash is king, of course! (Esp this month!)
“10 out of 10 terrorists want Obama to win.”
Exactly. If I was to guess based on past behavior, AQ would wait until after the election and within short time span of the new Administration stepping in.
That’s exactly WHY they might go. We’re broke. They can see that. They might just think that a major attack would finish us off. Maybe they’re right.
Yep, they want to get us when we’re down and finish us off.
Well gee whiz!!
We had better get some troops deployed domestically then.
And if those troops just "happen" to be deployed when the "civil unrest" begins from our economic collapse then it will be a really nice "coincidence".
We are more danger of internal terrorist attacks from ACORN, Nation of Islam, al Fuqra and Obama’s Blue Shirted Facists.
“If it does happen (goodness forbid), they’ll say McCain, Palin, Bush, Cheney, and Rove planned it.”
More MPBCR syndrome?
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