Latest FBI Bulletin Warns of Attempt by Al-Qaida for 'spectacular' Attack

Associated Press ^ | Nov 15, 2002 | Curt Anderson Associated Press Writer

[RoseofTexas]

GAWD! I'm sick of these BASTARD terroritsts and their threats!! LET'S JUST GO BOMB MECCA and get it over with ALREADY!!!

[HEY4QDEMS]

And tens of millions of members of this "Religion of Peace" will be dancing with glee in the streets.

[Prof. King]

You all might wish to read this:

http://antivirus.about.com/library/hoaxes/bljazeera.htm

is this a "cover up" to avoid a wide-speard panic" or a genuine hoax?

[jonascord]

Suppose Al-Quida sets off a nuke in Downtown American City.

100,000+ democrats vanish. (Sad, but lawyers would have been better. Perhaps we can suggest they they attack the National Trial Lawyers Convention.)

In one year:

Islam has ceased to exist.

Mecca and Medina are green glass ashtrays.

Bahgdad is the home of 4,000 half starved dogs and a bazillion fat vultures.

the Koran is on the same shelf as The Big Book of Druids and Norse Mythology for the Beginner.

The 'Peace at Any Price' types have retreated to whatever rocks they have crawled out from under.

Is the Glass half Empty or half Full?

[mhking]

Potential Thanksgiving (Thu 11/28) high profile targets (all with national television audiences):

• Macy's parade, 9A ET, New York City (NBC)
• NFL: New England Patriots at Detroit Lions (11:30A ET, Ford Field, Detroit - CBS)
• NFL: Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys (4P ET, Texas Stadium, Arlington, TX - FOX)
• CFB: Mississippi St. at Mississippi (7:30P ET, ESPN)

  Fri 11/29:

• CFB: Texas A&M at Texas (12N ET, ABC)
• CFB: Colorado at Nebraska (3:30P ET, ABC)

  Sat 11/30:

• CFB: Notre Dame at USC (8P ET, ABC)

[Axolotl]

Yikes! You cannot possibly be serious. The glass is completely empty!

[gaspar]

If the FBI persists in its "Chicken Little" approach to terrorism there will come a time when they scream out warnings and no one will listen.

[Lou L]

Is the Glass half Empty or half Full?

It depends on which "American City" you're living in at the time.

[Lou L]

Potential Thanksgiving (Thu 11/28) high profile targets (all with national television audiences):

It's said that loose lips sink ships; I don't think we need to help any potential terrorist by discussing "potential targets" in any thread.

[harpseal]

IMHO the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is the highest probability. It would accomplish every one of the goals cited for Al Qaeda. It does not need a nuclear device as conventional or improvised explosives could do the job. There is literally no way to secure that event. However there are a number of other very high profile targets in a number of areas. The Accela train is an easy target. and very high profile. However if they want to be truly spectacular then the Macy's parade is the big one.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[mhking]

It's said that loose lips sink ships; I don't think we need to help any potential terrorist by discussing "potential targets" in any thread.

It is also said that forewarned is forearmed. I truly don't think AQ is trolling FR looking for "good material."

Be safe, be warned, be armed.

[Squantos]

Possibilities are too endless to print as to what a "thinking" bad guy with nothing to lose could do with common everyday supplies available at wally worlds etc etc........

Best thing this country has, and needs to understand, is the law abidding citizens with a cell phone and a firearm to defend themselves hopefully long enough to make the 911 call is the only homeland security plan that will "ever" really work IMO .

Everything else is just whitewash and shineola as the enemy is already in the wire per se, living and working right next to us and wait their call to act .........tick !

Stay Safe !

[Travis McGee]

Our potential targets are too numerous to list.

I just hope that thinking Muslims realize that if they continue down this road, Mecca Medina and Q'um are going to end up looking like this:

Will they pray to smoking craters?

[Joe Brower]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to terrorism alert color-code "blackwatch plaid" for the holidays. $;-)

[The Great Satan]

"I think that as we ratchet up toward Iraq, we have to believe that there will be attempts in this country anywhere, perhaps everywhere, to do us harm," Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on CNN.

Note that Al-Qaeda didn't pull off anything remotely commensurate with 9/11 when we crushed their Taliban hosts, liberated Afghanistan, blew up their training camps, pulverized Tora Bora, and took hundreds of their jihad warriors prisoner and consigned them to steel cages at Camp X-Ray. All we got was one lousy shoe bomber. All of a sudden, we're supposed to believe that they are magically going to pull off massive attacks, all because we are going after Saddam -- whose "secular" regime is an anathema to bin Laden, according to the liberals, the losertarians and the gay buchananistas. Hmm, perhaps that should suggest something about what's really going on here. Perhaps everyone understands the real situation better than they would care to admit publicly.

[Dead Dog]

The first three steps would happen in a week.

[Squantos]

Ya know I got kicked outta that place in AZ. Myself , and one other EOD troop and our wives stopped to see the big crater. As we walked out on the deck overlooking the crater we laughed our butts off (yeah we'd had a few brews) and commented that we'd blown bigger holes than that at work. The Federal Tree Hugger Police asked us to "please leave"......:o)

Stay Safe !~

[Squantos]

I've been in condition yellow since 72 .

My choices for homeland security........

Stay Safe !

[Joe Brower]