Posted on 11/21/2015 1:34:14 PM PST by RaceBannon
UPDATE: 3:05 p.m. EST -- The FBI Saturday said in a statement it is aware of an alleged threat by the Islamic State group to stage an attack on a WWE event scheduled for Atlanta Sunday evening. However, FBI Special Agent in Charge J. Britt Johnson of the Atlanta office said the bureau did not have "specific or credible information of an attack."
The FBI is aware of reports of an alleged threat that includes an Atlanta, Georgia, venue and event. ... We have ... made the proper notifications as we continue to work closely with our law-enforcement and private-sector partners to keep our community safe."
Original story:
Anonymous, the loose collective of online activists, said Saturday it has uncovered information about Islamic State group attacks in Paris as well as at locations in the U.S., Indonesia, Italy and Lebanon, all apparently set for Sunday. OpParisIntel, a group within Anonymous, released a statement saying it had collected information about imminent attacks by the militant group -- aka Daesh, ISIL and ISIS -- in the French capital a little more than a week after a series of coordinated attacks there left 130 dead and hundreds injured.
Anonymous also said the Islamic State group is planning an assault at the WWE Survivor Series event scheduled to take place in the Philips Arena in Atlanta Sunday at 7.30 p.m. EST, as well as attacks at multiple events in Paris.
The collective published the list of potential targets alongside a statement: "The goal is to make sure the whole world, or at least the people going to these events, know that there have been threats and that there is possibility of an attack to happen. Another goal is to make sure Daesh knows that the world knows and cancels the attacks, which will disorientate them for a while."
The targets listed by Anonymous are as follow:
Cigales Electroniques with Vocodecks, RE-Play & Rawtor at Le Bizen (Paris) Concrete Invites Drumcode: Adam Beyer, Alan Fitzpatrick, Joel Mull at Concrete (Paris) Demonstration by Collectif du Droit des Femmes (Paris) Feast of Christ the King celebrations (Rome/Worldwide) Al-Jihad, One Day One Juz (Indonesia) Five Finger Death Punch (Milan) University Pastoral Day (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon) According to Anonymous: "We only appeared now because our goal was to remain undercover and report everything to the right authorities and let them take all the action. But when authorities do not take action, Anonymous does. This part of the op started last Monday and has [been] and will be active 24 hours a day as long as the op is going on."
Speaking to International Business Times, Anonymous said it had passed proof to the MI5 intelligence agency in the U.K., the CIA and FBI in the U.S., and the Australian government but that it has no plans to release the proof publicly. "If we share the proof [publicly], everyone will start calling it fake because screenshots can be edited and accounts can be deleted. We have purposely not shared account links publicly because they would be shut down immediately and then no one would believe the proof."
Anonymous declared war on the Islamic State group last week, vowing to track it down online as part of its Operation Paris (or OpParis). It has since released a guide for all those looking to take part in the operation, which already has identified tens of thousands of Twitter accounts it said are associated with the militant group while also taking some websites offline. The Islamic State group has responded to the threat by Anonymous, warning of a retaliatory attack on the activist group.
FYI-—In Hawaii they call it shave ice.
Weird.
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I get the impression Anonymous is just another alphabet agency
I realize that Anonymous is simply in it for the personal aggrandizement, but releasing such information publicly simply compromises their intelligence sources. Which, honestly, probably isn’t that intelligent to begin with.
Yawn. They never announce their attacks. But getting the entire country of Belgium shut down has been such a high that they’re going on to “terrify†other infidels
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Best strategy in the world.
AND CHEAP.
Make an anonymous threat now and then, make sure notify the LOCAL press and TV, spout anything and the stage is set.
I remember back in the DC Bushwacker days, what two very insignificant ‘little’ people did. Terrorized the entire region with the assistance of Law Enforcement and the Press.
Think what one could do with 6 or 7 such teams in ‘big’ news markets.
After a few days, just have to pick up the phone and say there is a bomb in the tunnel/bridge, call Airports with bomb threats.
For the cost of a few burner phones ‘they’ could control the whole country in a matter of days.
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I’d be surprised if he didn’t stop there. Like preventing the current situation to deteriorate isn’t a big enough thing to deal with.. Instead of battling over globull varming and trade issues.. Aint kind of important too.
That’s Our Obammy!!!
Are our military leaders all homos?
saw the iron sheik in atlanta airport a while back..yea he was grizzled..looked rough, in a wheel chair..
what about Paxxon the fish face korean..lol
I am curious how ISIS expects to ‘attack’ Anonymous since it is an online group? There is a reason they are called Anonymous.
More likely, they have a few Aloha Snackbar types ready to go in the Atlanta area, and this was the biggest event they could find on the calendar over the next week.
Okay, I'll play. How do you retaliate against an anonymous group?
Given Anonymous is announcing this, didn’t they get it from hacking? That does not preclude what you’re saying.
I know Putin is a bad guy, but right now he seems to be the only world leader who cares about white people or Christians. Too soon to tell re: Hollande, but I’ll be surprised if his resolve holds, esp. after what he said about: yeah sure, we’ll still take refugees.
Every ammo dump, oil tanker truck, warehouse, training site and Islamo killed under Putin’s orders removes a threat to us and the rest of the world.
Amen.....the way to deal with an enemy is to kill him and his if they remain in his house
Yes, and the other problem is the source. Since when did Anonymous become a friend of the US and Western Europe?
They would,p have gotten it by hacking, but what is their sudden desire to “protect” the US and Western Europe by giving a warning? I’d say it’s more likely an attempt to shut down our economies and trade and see exactly what measures we will take.
Carry your firearm everywhere you go. Carry extra ammunition.
Practice. Practice. Practice.
Be discreet but ignore those stupid signs.
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There might be another reason as to why Anonymous chose to release the info publicly. The government intelligent community was probably ignoring that which Anon was telling them because the govt is disregarding the source - Anonymous. Given this, Anon chose to bring the threat to the attention of the public after repeated attempts to the feds.
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