[Honestly]

Al Quaeda Operatives Captured by CIA Provided Intelligence Behind New Orange Heightened Terrorist Threat Alert

Homeland Security Today Magazine Briefed That Three Al Qaeda Cells Appeared to Coordinate Bomb Plots in US.

WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) August 7, 2004 -- Senior US counterterrorist and intelligence officials in Washington told Homeland Security Today Magazine in recent days intelligence gleaned as a consequence of the arrest in Texas of alleged Al Qaeda courier Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed, and the subsequent unreported capture by the CIA of two operatives of an Al Qaeda cell operating in Mexico for which she was ferrying instructions to suspected Al Qaeda members in New York, contributed significantly to the nations capital, New York City and New Jersey being put on high alert Sunday.

Washington-based counter terror intelligence sources told HSToday Ahmed was on her way to New York to deliver what were described as instructions from an Al Qaeda cell. The officials said intelligence provided by Ahmed, who authorities believe was operating as a "mule" a conduit for passing plot instructions - during interrogations led agents of the CIA's top secret operation to secretly capture Al Qaeda operatives to an undisclosed location where at least two members of the cell were taken into custody and transferred to one of the CIA's clandestine terrorist detention facilities. (snip)

Beginning in the late 1980s, according to a variety of classified CIA intelligence reports made available to HSToday, Middle East terror groups established conduits in Mexico via Panama to smuggle members into the US.

Al Qaeda reportedly has obtained counterfeit passports from organized crime syndicates operating in South Africa. The Al Qaeda members rounded up in Pakistan in late July are said to be from South Africa and may be tied to the terror group's cell Ahmed is said to be linked to, intelligence sources told HSToday. (snip)

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb147272.htm

[Indie]

All the talk of IED and truck bombs has me flustered. After 9-11, do we really think this is what the islamonazis have in mind? If it is, there must be more. Don't be lulled to sleep.

I tend to think anything leading in this direction is a diversion IMO.

[TheLion]

From your post: "According to FBI and other authorities familiar with the matter interviewed by HSToday, there’s a growing concern over fuel tanker trucks being stolen in south Texas and being transported across the border into Mexico."

Why are trucks going to Mexico? To be refitted as weapons?

[JustPiper]

[Seattle Post Intelligencer] USA - Nuclear plants vulnerable to attack

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/184879_kennedy05.html

[MSNBC] USA - Security: What Companies Need to Do

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5612622/