US warns of new terror plots, including suicide attacks (Kansi dies on 14 November - Yahoo!)

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Thursday November 7, 10:15 AM

US warns of new terror plots, including suicide attacks

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Extremists are planning new terrorist strikes against US interests overseas, including possible suicide attacks, the State Department has warned.

"The US government continues to receive credible indications that extremist groups and individuals are planning additional terrorist actions against US interests," the department said in a worldwide caution issued late Wednesday. "Such actions may include, but are not limited to, suicide operations."

The warning came in advance of the scheduled November 14 execution by the US state of Virginia of Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani national convicted of murder and sentenced to death for his 1993 killing of two Central Intelligence Agency employees.

The two men, identified as Lansing Bennett, 66, and Frank Darling, 28, were shot dead from a Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifle as they sat in their cars in traffic outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The attack left three other people wounded.

The killings triggered a worldwide hunt for Kansi, which culminated in a daring raid on a Pakistani hotel by a Federal Bureau of Investigation team and his arrest in June 1997.

A son of a wealthy Pakistani family, Kansi worked in the Washington area as a courier while waiting for his asylum application to be processed by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The State Department said that as security measures in the United States have been stepped up, terrorists may choose to target Americans or US facilities overseas.

"Terrorist groups do not distinguish between official and civilian targets," the caution said. "There is a possibility that American citizens may be targeted for kidnapping or assassination."

Other potential targets could include residential areas, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools, hotels, outdoor recreation events or resorts and beaches and other facilities where Americans, or foreigners in general, are known to congregate, according to the State Department.

It said US facilities overseas may temporarily close or suspend public services from time to time due to these new security concerns and urged American travelers to remain vigilant and exercise caution.

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[LouD]

I'll be celebrating on 14 November. I only wish I could shoot the son of a bitch myself.

[areafiftyone]

Can't come soon enough for me. I am sick of these people threatening us whenever our justice system is at work. SCREW THEM!!!! We should put all terrorists to death after all they gave their victims the death penalty!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Virginia Freepers,

How about laying a wreath of flowers over where you are on the public causeway, in front of the CIA, in commemoration of the victims, and at the exact hour that the Islamofascist scumbag gets the Commonwealth of Virginia hot needle? And call the media?

[MarineDad]

I'll be celebrating on 14 November. I only wish I could shoot the son of a bitch myself.

Gates of Hell opening just a little bit wider soon BUMP.

[Fiddlstix]

I'll be celebrating on 14 November. I only wish I could shoot the son of a bitch myself.

Ditto!

[Catspaw]

He's not going to have any last minute appeals to postpone the execution? That's a standard lawyer trick.

[mikhailovich]

Just wondering in light of this story how will the US handle a hostage crisis like the recent one in Russia? Will they use gas? Will the storm the building after a long standof?

[AmericanInTokyo]

If it involves a whole American elementary school somewhere (shudder), then it will be a 'bitch'. Hands tied. But I am sure we are training for that, since it already is in the al-Qaida, Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Sayyef and alAqsa manuals. We have to be prepared for the unthinkable now, even within the context of our own neighborhoods and in our own back yards. The gate to America has been opened too long, and we have a healthy batch of enemies globally nowadays.

It has always been, in my estimate, unnacceptable and no longer sustainable for the United States to conduct American foreign and military power policies overseas in every nook and cranny which we knew in advance would have the net effect of creating and multiplying ruthless enemies, but at the same time running a reprehensibly open national porous border system. This is a Democratic as well as Republican fiasco, IMHO.

We had better be ready, that is all I can say.

[TigersEye]

Given half a chance American hostages may rip their assailants limb from limb and feed the scraps to the dogs.

Remember Todd Beamer and co. ... Let's roll!

[tracer]

Or, how about burying this vermin under the pavement where his victims died?

BTW, the AP, also know as the Dissociated Press, true-to-form, spelled this goblin's name as "Kasi" in their wire story today. What a bunch of losers........