“radioactive materials”
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3351832&page=1
FBI Probes Goldman Sachs Threat Letters
Death Threats Target Home of Wall Street’s Biggest Bonuses
July 6, 2007 —
(excerpt)
The FBI is investigating anonymous threats against Goldman Sachs, the world’s biggest securities firm, contained in handwritten letters warning that “hundreds will die.”
The letters, sent to newspapers nationwide, read: “GOLDMAN SACHS. HUNDREDS WILL DIE. WE ARE INSIDE. YOU CANNOT STOP US. A.Q.U.S.A.” The letters, all mailed from Queens, N.Y., were sent to nine newspapers including publications in Newark, N.J.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Boise, Idaho, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported. . . The letters were postmarked late June from New York and were handwritten in red ink on loose-leaf paper. . .
Britain studies bomb plot for links to al Qaeda
Fri Jul 6, 2007 12:45 AM IST
By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent (excerpt)
LONDON (Reuters) - Investigators are tracing their way through a maze of foreign links to a failed bomb plot in Britain to establish the possible role of al Qaeda’s inner circle or its Iraqi arm, security sources said on Thursday. . .
An intelligence paper leaked to the Sunday Times in April said the country faced threats not only from “core” al Qaeda, based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but also increasingly from al Qaeda in Iraq (AQ-I). It said AQ-I networks were “active in the U.K.” and there was intelligence that AQ-I’s Kurdish network in Iran might be planning a large-scale attack on a Western target. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/01/terror.threat/index.html
U.S. raises threat level at key financial sites
New York City, Washington, northern New Jersey affected
(excerpt)8/1/2004
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Security at financial sites in New York City, northern New Jersey and Washington, D.C., increased significantly Sunday after the Department of Homeland Security raised the terror threat level for those areas to orange, or high. “Alarming” intelligence from multiple sources indicates that al Qaeda terrorists could be poised to strike financial institutions, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said. . . .
Ridge said the plans appeared to include car and truck bombs, aimed at “the attempted physical destruction of these facilities.” Ridge also said “we’re concerned about targets beyond these and are working to get more information about them.” “The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information,” Ridge told reporters at a news conference Sunday. . .
In New York, a law enforcement source said the information that prompted the alert is so specific — down to details about meeting rooms and parking structures — that it appears surveillance might have been conducted inside the buildings. Senior intelligence officials in Washington characterized al Qaeda’s reconnaissance information as “chilling” in its scope and breadth. . .
Both the World Bank and IMF — which are across the street from each other in downtown Washington, just a few blocks from the White House — said they would be open for businesses as usual Monday morning, albeit with additional security measures in place. . . .
City officials have been considering activating the National Guard as the Republican convention approaches, Bloomberg said, adding that officials began been weighing that idea before they received word of the threat. Ridge said in early July that al Qaeda was planning a large-scale attack in “an effort to disrupt the democratic process” before Election Day on November 2.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595081268,00.html
Deseret Morning News, Monday, August 02, 2004
Targeted companies labor to assure workers on security
By Justin Bachman
AP business (excerpt)
. . . Citigroup sent employees an e-mail telling them its security department is taking new, unspecified measures and is making “every effort to ensure your safety at all times and particularly in light of recent reports of possible threats and the upcoming Republican National Convention in New York City.” The threat was posted for Citigroup properties in the New York area. . .
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly met with the security directors of 13 major financial institutions Sunday evening to discuss the intelligence reports about New York targets and to review police and private security measures in response to the intelligence. Police officials from the department’s counterterrorism bureau and intelligence division also participated. The 13 institutions are: Morgan Stanley Inc., the Nasdaq Stock Market, the American Stock Exchange, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.,
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.,
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bear Stearns Cos. Inc., Wachovia Corp., American International Group Inc., Citigroup, MetLife Inc., JP Morgan Chase and Co., and the New York Stock Exchange. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7913-2004Aug17.html
Britain Charges 8 In Alleged Terror Plot
Plan Targeted U.S. Financial Buildings
By John Mintz and Kamran Khan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, August 18, 2004; Page A01 (excerpt)
British authorities charged eight alleged al Qaeda operatives yesterday with conspiracy to commit murder and other counts in connection with a reported plot to attack the International Monetary Fund building in Washington and other sites in New York and Newark.
One of those charged was Dhiren Barot — known publicly until yesterday as Eisa Hindi — who is suspected of conducting surveillance of U.S. financial buildings that was detailed in computer files seized recently in Pakistan. The discovery of the computer documents led the U.S. government on Aug. 1 to raise the terrorism alert to orange, or “high risk,” for the financial sectors in Washington, New York and Newark. . .
Barot, 32, who was reared in a Hindu home and who converted to Islam, has used other aliases, including Issa al Britani. The commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks referred to him by that name in its final report, released last month. It said that an al Qaeda leader in custody told interrogators that in early 2001, Osama bin Laden had sent “Britani” to the United States “to case potential economic and ‘Jewish’ targets in New York City” for possible attack. . .
Besides Barot, the names of most of the seven other men charged had not been disclosed publicly until yesterday.
He and Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, 24; Abdul Aziz Jalil, 31; Omar Abdul Rehman, 20; Junade Feroze, 28; Zia Ul Haq, 25; Qaisar Shaffi, 25; and Nadeem Tarmohammed, 26, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit a public nuisance by using “radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals and/or explosives to cause disruption.”
Bin Laden has had it in for the IMF/World Bank for a long time.
An excellent collection of connected articles.
“radioactive materials”
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070508/full/070508-2.html
Published online: 8 May 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070508-2
Have you seen any nuclear material?
Pakistan places advertisements regarding ‘misplaced’ isotopes.
Geoff Brumfiel (excerpt)
A Pakistani public information campaign about what to do if you stumble across stray radioactive material is raising hairs on the necks of Western arms control experts.
The ads, which appeared last week in several Urdu-language newspapers, featured the large, yellow radiation symbol and a warning to report any lost or misplaced isotopes.
“As public education campaigns go, it’s unique,” says Jeffrey Lewis, director of nuclear strategy and nonproliferation at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. Lewis says he was “shocked” to hear of the announcements. . .