Posted on 10/04/2010 5:32:30 AM PDT by facedodge
Airport Lobbies Possible Terror Targets in European Plot, Official Says
Mounting 'Chatter' by Jihadi Extremists Has Law Enforcement Nervous
Among the possible targets in the suspected European terror plot are pre-security areas in at least five major European airports, a law enforcement official told ABC News. Authorities believe terror teams are preparing to mount a commando like attack featuring small units and small firearms modeled after the Mumbai attack two years ago.
The State Department issued a highly unusual "Travel Alert" Sunday for "potential terrorist attacks in Europe," saying U.S. citizens are "reminded of the potential for terrorists to attack public transportation systems and other tourist infrastructure."
One scenario authorities fear is a repeat of the 1985 attack on the Rome and Vienna airports, when Palestinian extremists threw grenades and opened fire on travelers waiting at ticket counters injuring 140 and killing 19, including a small child.
European and U.S. officials first learned of the current terror threat over the summer following the capture of a suspected German terrorist who had been training in Pakistan.
The plot's leaders have been identified and targeted, Pakistan's Ambassador Husain Haqqani told ABC News in an interview late Sunday.
"I think that several people who were involved in the plotting have been targeted, and the others are certainly on the radar of U.S., Pakistani and European intelligence services," Haqqani said.
A curfew was ordered this weekend at Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base in Germany, with soldiers told to remain at home and not to wear uniforms off base "in response to a threat condition," a Ramstein spokesperson said....
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Obummer Impossible Terror Target in Plot, Official Says
LAX, DCA, ATL,LGA, BOS, ORD, JFK. Simultaneous assaults, much news coverage.
I want to know which five airports they’re talking about. We’re going to Europe in 2 weeks.
“This might be disinformation.
The real terror attacks might directed elsewhere.”
Absolutely. Airports are hard targets for these cowards. Airports are the one place that has cops with heavy ordnance to deal swifty with these punks. More likely they will hit hospitals, schools, hotels, etc.
You may be right. The real targets in the 1985 attacks were not the airports themselves. I was in the Rome airport in the attack. I was getting my luggage and focused on the bags coming down the very noisy conveyor and finally grabbed my bag. When I looked up all heck had broken lose, people were running like mad and police were dragging a lady drenched in blood. I quickly escaped the area and went on my way. A few years later I was speaking to a government terrorist expert and recounted the story. He then identified the flight I was own and proceeded to tell me that we were the actual target. The Italians had been tipped off something was planned and had extra security in place. They were able to pin the terrorist down in the lobby. The real plan had been for them to shoot their way through the lobby and take the plane just as it landed.
But the more likely scenario would be a suicide muzzie or two with a briefcase full of C4. There is no screening prior to getting in line.
Maybe he was representing the feelings his home country when he said that.
I want to know which five airports they’re talking about. We’re going to Europe in 2 weeks.
Entirely possible. Of course one has to question the wisdom of activiating sleepers in the most heavily armed country on the planet.
Maybe they were offended? It is confusing. The whole world loved Obama. Where did it go wrong? Why do they hate us now?
Didn’t the liberals used to SCREAM that it was an election trick when President Bush and his administration would come out RIGHT before the elections and talk up the terrorist threat????
Are they going to say Obama is doing the same thing???
I went through Frankurt and Munich in July, and believe me, I was on alert, “watching”, the entire time I was in those terminals.
Thanks, Cowboy. Looking forward to the locals’ food!
We’ve been planning to tone down our “American” wardrobe, anyway, to deter Pickpockets.
For those of you who’ve played Modern Warfare 2, consider the airport scene in that.
But it does mean those practitioners of the Religion of Peace will have to violate the “Gun-Free Zone” rules. tsk, tsk, tsk
The down side to this type of attack is that the Muslim Supremacists will have to build a bunch of Victory mosques instead of just one.
/sarc {That should be readily apparent, but just in case}
...”NATO to the rescue?”
Better yet: Let’s ask the UN to intervene!
..”hospitals, schools, hotels, etc.” and Shopping Malls.
I’m wondering why these subhumans haven’t yet focused on attacking churches? You’d think they would or does that make it a direct attack on Christians and would invoke another Crusade that they fear?
It would make them look weak and impotent if did all this planning and preparation only to be stopped by a couple of citizens with CCW’s.
[It would also make the gun grabbers look stupid, but that's a different story]
Better for them to select a target where the people have already been disarmed by kind and benevolent government. /sarc.
Hamburg cell at heart of terrorist plot against Europe
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/04/europe.terror.plot/index.html?hpt=T2
“German officials say the Hamburg group were all recruited from the Taiba mosque in Hamburg. In the 1990s. The same mosque — then called Al Quds - was attended by the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks, Mohammed Atta.
The Imam of the Taiba mosque in Hamburg is Mamoun Darkazanli, a German businessman originally from Syria. The 9/11 Commission identified him as having links to al Qaeda financiers.
In the years after 9/11 the Taiba mosque became a magnet for al Qaeda sympathizers across Europe.
“They all wanted to come and pray where Mohammed Atta prayed,” a German intelligence official told CNN.”
Guess what will happen at the Ground Zero Mosque, if it actually gets built?
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