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Senior U.S. officials say intelligence "chatter" suggests terrorists plotting major US attack
CNN ^ | 5-20-03

Posted on 05/20/2003 10:33:07 AM PDT by dogbyte12

CNN flashing alert. More details to follow. Could be a drudge like siren, or series. CNN thinks this one is serious.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chatter; terrorism; warning
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To: dogbyte12
Orange we are...

per CNN
61 posted on 05/20/2003 11:34:55 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: dogbyte12
If the terrorists really had something planned in the U.S., why would they tip their hand by first bombing places in Saudi Arabia?

62 posted on 05/20/2003 11:34:59 AM PDT by G-Bear
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To: G-Bear
If the terrorists really had something planned in the U.S., why would they tip their hand by first bombing places in Saudi Arabia?

Making us feel they spent their ammo. That we have breathing room before they target us again. Hoping that our agencies focus on attacks they are planning in the middle east as opposed to focusing on homeland attacks.

63 posted on 05/20/2003 11:36:59 AM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: Nexus
MSNBC: Threat level raised to high (orange)
64 posted on 05/20/2003 11:40:01 AM PDT by frosty snowman
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To: So Cal Rocket
Wow! didn't know that.
65 posted on 05/20/2003 11:40:51 AM PDT by Charlie OK
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To: Nexus
I wonder if it was a close call between going to orange or going straight to red? Of course, orange could be prelude for red if the threat information becomes even more specific in the next 48 hours. And, since we've never had a red (severe) threat level, red may create a certain amount of panic to add to the uncertainty already existing.
66 posted on 05/20/2003 11:44:24 AM PDT by CedarDave (The number of Saddam (non)sightings is rapidly approaching those of Elvis!)
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To: dogbyte12
Christians churches should be on high alert on Saturdays and Mondays for the foreseeable future. Halloween and December 26 also should be high-alert days as well......
67 posted on 05/20/2003 11:46:25 AM PDT by tracer (/b>)
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To: Sans-Culotte
Well, for a start, The president could get serious about policing the borders>>>>>>>>>>>

If 9-11 didn't make ANYONE get serious about our borders,
nothing else will.

With over 4 million trucks crossing every year @ ONE point,
in TX, we are still only searching 1% of them.

Gee, I wonder how all those illegals & drugs (& WHO knows what else) make it across our borders...????
68 posted on 05/20/2003 11:46:54 AM PDT by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: caa26
I'm sure a lot of you remember the infamous calendar from Sept 2001 with an airliner headed for the heart of Manhattan.

I don't. Could anyone elaborate?

69 posted on 05/20/2003 11:46:59 AM PDT by MattAMiller (Iraq was liberated in my name, how about yours?)
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To: G-Bear
They are doing everything they can everywhere (Saudi, Israel), regardless of the size or dramatics of the attacks -- to let the world know they are still operating and not completely defeated. After Afghanistan and Iraq, they feel the strong need to re-establish their bonafides. If that means smaller scale attacks (like are seen in Israel), perhaps in larger numbers, then that's what they'll do.

They want the world to know they aren't all gone and they still hate us, and will try to kill us wherever and however they can.

They're into activity, not into subterfuge, so they couldn't care less whether we are alerted or not.

70 posted on 05/20/2003 11:47:41 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (the future Misty Mountain Scott?)
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To: caa26
The Arabic calendar for May features a phto of Hillary!! in a two-piece swimsuit.......
71 posted on 05/20/2003 11:48:06 AM PDT by tracer (/b>)
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To: MizSterious
Exactly. The media and Dems, however, will be the first ones to blame GWB if an attack occurs. And you know what? I think that many Americans will actually agree with the lies. I know I won't. GWB has said from the get go that attacks will probably happen again.
72 posted on 05/20/2003 11:51:49 AM PDT by rintense (Freedom is contagious. And everyone wants to catch it.)
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To: dogbyte12
If something major does go down, we can thank our splendid leaders, GOP and Democratic, at national, state and local levels, for being wonderfully politically correct and unoffensive to the terrorists in our midst and oh so helpful all these days.

They will have now had:

ONE YEAR, EIGHT MONTHS and NINE DAYS to have done the following for the sake of national security:

1) Complete SEALING of the United States Borders; and

2) Location and Expulsion of All Male Middleeast Nationals That Are Not U.S. Citizens As Well as All Middle Easterners Who Have Violated Their Stay

Instead, they (and their allies in the media) farted around for all that time, taking shoes off at mosques for photo ops in the Halls of the Religion of Peace, chasing white trucks for snipers, ruling LAX shootings as 'random', endlessly running the insane "I AM an American!" propaganda Ad- Council TV ads that basically told us not risk being a 'racist' by being alert, shaking down grandmothers and Medal of Honor winners at airports and forcing them to take off shoes or strip privately, slandering and ridiculing as 'racist' and 'trigger happy' the good Americans who merely reported suspicious activity and conversation of Middle Eastern males at a Georgia coffee shop...and the list goes on and on and on.

The buzzards may well come home to roost. The barn door's open, Goober. And I thought 9-11 was a strong enough wake up call......

73 posted on 05/20/2003 11:52:53 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
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To: MattAMiller
This is the best pic I could find of the calendar:


74 posted on 05/20/2003 11:52:56 AM PDT by caa26
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To: tracer
Lots of high school and college graduations in the next few weeks... baseball games, races, etc.
75 posted on 05/20/2003 11:53:31 AM PDT by rintense (Freedom is contagious. And everyone wants to catch it.)
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To: tracer
Good gawd man! They couldn't sink that low, could they?!?!?!?
76 posted on 05/20/2003 11:54:16 AM PDT by bigcheese (Tag line (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: CedarDave
My question is this: how hard would be for a Middle Eastern cab driver to turn his cab into a car bomb? I mean, when you think of the number of Arab cab drivers in NYC, DC, etc., wouldn't this be the perfect cover for them? Cabs go everywhere in major cities...
77 posted on 05/20/2003 11:59:07 AM PDT by rintense (Freedom is contagious. And everyone wants to catch it.)
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To: Chemist_Geek
"There's nothing "I" can do, except pray for divine internvention." "Ahem. There's plenty that ordinary people can do to help secure America, even just on evenings and weekends... Examples follow." Here is another example of something people can do: http://www.sgaus.org
78 posted on 05/20/2003 11:59:36 AM PDT by judicial meanz (Audaces Fortuna Juvat)
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To: conservativeinbflo.
But what about Fargo?

B.C. - Fargo, ND
79 posted on 05/20/2003 12:00:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Wheat is Murder! (Tilling slaughters worms.....))
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To: dogbyte12
While driving to work here in Las Vegas this morning there were several black unmarked helicopters circling the entire downtown strip area. I haven't seen this since shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
80 posted on 05/20/2003 12:00:57 PM PDT by cjohnson7771
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