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over at Drudge:

U.S. intelligence officials say a high-profile political assassination, triggered by the public release of a new message from Osama bin Laden, will lead off the next major al Qaeda terrorist attack, the WASHINGTON TIMES has learned. The assassination plan is among new details of al Qaeda plots disclosed by U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports who, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the killing could be carried out against a U.S. or foreign leader either in the United States or abroad.

The new details of al Qaeda's plans were found on a laptop computer belonging to arrested al Qaeda operative Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan of Pakistan, Bill Gertz is set to report in a page one blockbuster.

'We're talking about planning at the screwdriver level,' one official said. 'It is very detailed.'

Thanks for posting. I was just about to go to bed. This does fit with what we've discussed over the months, a Bin Laden message gets the ball rolling. Wasn't there something about a video followed by an audio tape or vice versa? Since OBL hasn't done anything original in such a long time I'll be very surprised if it's new, but then there were the reports the other day of some sort of Al Queda convention on the Afghan/Paki border. Maybe he's still out there.

I've added the President & our soldiers to my children's bedtime prayers. May God bless this wonderful country & have mercy on us. I take comfort in the fact that the Lord was willing to spare Soddom & Gomorrah if only a handful of righteous people could be found. I know we have more than that.

Nasty gunk: An eyewitness account

'People sat in stunned anger'
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-040810waste,1,762212.story?coll=chi-homepagepromo451-fea

What I am upset about is a story I heard all day on WBBM radio:

Rosemont had a hazmat situation that closed an area perimeter due to something in the DesPlaines River at Touhy they had been following from River Grove! And I have looked on a dozen sites and nothing!

They were in a quandry as to what it was, where it originated from blah-blah

The planning for the attacks to follow involves "multiple targets in multiple venues" across the United States, one official said.

Just as we have discussed here for a long time but now its in circulation news

MORE:
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* U.S. intelligence officials said they think that several al Qaeda terrorists already in the United States are part of the plot, although their identities and locations are not known.

* "The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election," the official said. "The view of al Qaeda is 'anybody but Bush.' "

* The officials also said the terrorist group has begun using female members for preattack surveillance and possibly as suicide bombers, thinking that women will have an easier time getting past security checkpoints at airports, borders and ports.

* The al Qaeda attack plans call for bombings using trucks and cars, and hijacked aircraft, including commercial airliners and helicopters.

* "There is a particular concern that chemical trucks will be used," one official said.

* Regarding the new bin Laden message, the officials said there are intelligence reports, some of them sketchy, that a new tape from the al Qaeda leader will surface soon.

* In the past, video and audio messages by bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, were broadcast days or weeks before an attack, the officials said.

* "The message likely will be the signal for the attack to be launched," one official said.

* A second U.S. official said one intelligence agency was aware of unconfirmed reports of a new bin Laden tape.
"There may be such a tape, but it hasn't surfaced and we haven't seen it," this official said

* Frances Townsend, a White House homeland-security adviser, said Sunday that the government has received a steady "stream" of intelligence indicating that an al Qaeda attack is planned.