[spetznaz]

There are times when i wonder if terrorist groups, some of the people we have in the detention centers, and even some pranksters out there are not churning out false info. The terrorists and detainees may be doing it to saturate the authorities with tasks that exceed their capabilities (aftre all there is only a finite number of things the Feds can do), and maybe the objectives of the pranksters is a laugh from seeing their 'threat' get printed on the morning paper as a 'federal warning.'

I guess the main problem the Feds are facing is the trade-off between just concentrating on 'credible threats,' and the risk of refusing to follow a certain 'ludicrous' threat, and that threat becomes a reality (eg before 9-11 the events that happened that morning would have been classified as 'highly improbable').

Let's just say that the FBI is finding itself under such a punitive work load that i doubt it will even be able to deal with what we can now call 'normal' crime like kidnappings and big-style theft! And with all these 'threat' flying left right and center there is a chance they will be so inundiated with 'leads' that the real one may penetrate their over-loaded dragnets!

And that will lead to another cycle of 'why did you not know?' Saddening!

[aristeides]

I don't think this is false info. Hijacker Jarrah mailed a package to his Turkish girlfriend in Germany shortly before 9/11. It included documentation of his flying and diving lessons.

[Kevin Curry]

There are times when i wonder if terrorist groups, some of the people we have in the detention centers, and even some pranksters out there are not churning out false info.

Osama bin Laden and his pals have demonstrated that they are intelligent and savvy enough to engage in psyops and disinformation campaigns against the American people. I believe they will try to strike when and where it is less, if not least, expected.