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THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | December 27, 2002 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 12/30/2002 11:02:31 AM PST by Mossad1967

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:59:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Big one U.S. intelligence officials say there are signs terrorists are planning a major attack during the holiday season. But the signs are not specific enough to issue a warning to the public. Increased chatter among terrorist groups associated with the al Qaeda network has been a common indicator in the past. Intelligence agencies have been picking up signals since early December from terrorist suspects indicating that an attack is being planned. "They are talking about 'the big one,'" an intelligence official tells us. U.S. government public warnings about terrorism over the Christmas and New Year's holiday have been limited to overseas-travel advisories. The latest intelligence says a major terror attack could be carried out in the United States, the officials said. The FBI warned this week that terrorists may attempt to blow up an airliner using explosives-laden shoes, similar to the attempt a year ago by accused shoe-bomb suspect Richard C. Reid. CIA Director George J. Tenet said in a recent speech that the al Qaeda network is preparing terrorist attacks. He noted that recent taped messages by al Qaeda leaders were "unprecedented in their bluntness and urgency."


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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burgerking; earthquake; happynewyears; hillarysbigass; igottabigone; mcdonalds; whatbigone; whosbigone
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New Years Eve
1 posted on 12/30/2002 11:02:31 AM PST by Mossad1967
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To: Mossad1967
"They are talking about 'the big one,'"

Awwww.....they're just talking about McDonald's new burger. Nothing to see here...move along.

2 posted on 12/30/2002 11:04:01 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: Mossad1967
fiesta bowl, super bowl, times square...
3 posted on 12/30/2002 11:04:24 AM PST by Principled
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To: Mossad1967
You couldn't pay me enough money to go to Times Square tomorrow, or fly anywhere in the world.

We plan on staying home and renting a DVD.

MKM

4 posted on 12/30/2002 11:04:57 AM PST by mykdsmom
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To: Mossad1967
>>New Years Eve

Bowl games worry me.
5 posted on 12/30/2002 11:05:40 AM PST by arkfreepdom
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To: Mossad1967
What a information-filled headline... I mean, it could have been anything - for example, If I were to say, "I had a Big One when I woke up this morning.", the possibilities of what I was referring to are only limited by the imagination...

I hate journalists.
6 posted on 12/30/2002 11:06:30 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks
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To: Chad Fairbanks
LOL!
7 posted on 12/30/2002 11:08:18 AM PST by cmsgop
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To: Mossad1967
There's been a warning every holiday period for the past 15 months.
I suppose sooner or later something going to happen but I'm not expecting large scale, maybe something like a U-Hual full of explosives going off somewhere symbolic.
8 posted on 12/30/2002 11:08:50 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Free the USA
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9 posted on 12/30/2002 11:09:10 AM PST by KQQL
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To: mykdsmom
Same here about NYC's New Year's Eve. I went down to it once when I lived there and all I could think about was that it would be so easy to rob, pillage, cause mischief, etc as everyone's drunk and the cops couldn't get through the crows easily.
Having said that I'm going to a friend's apt with a view of Seattle's Space Needle. You couldn't pay me to go down there.
10 posted on 12/30/2002 11:10:02 AM PST by lelio
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To: Mossad1967
But no one's had the stones to turn up the color code level, right?
11 posted on 12/30/2002 11:10:09 AM PST by mhking
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To: arkfreepdom
Bowl games worry me.

Dick Clark should be pretty damned interesting tomorrow night...

12 posted on 12/30/2002 11:10:58 AM PST by mhking
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To: Principled
Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, NFL Playoff Weekend, Tournament of Roses Parade.. am I missing something?
13 posted on 12/30/2002 11:11:34 AM PST by ewing
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To: arkfreepdom
Bowl games worry me.

You saw Black Sunday too, eh? Goodyear Blimp security will be very tight, I'd imagine.

14 posted on 12/30/2002 11:12:06 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Chad Fairbanks

It's the BIG ONE! I'm coming Elizbeth!
15 posted on 12/30/2002 11:13:02 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: mhking
I say throw the darned warning level thing up a notch right now.

19 of these guys is just too many to know what they might be planning..

16 posted on 12/30/2002 11:13:11 AM PST by ewing
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To: mhking; Poohbah; section9
Man, with all those targets...

And keep in mind any cells here probably have the initiative. Not good, not good...
17 posted on 12/30/2002 11:13:32 AM PST by hchutch
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To: Mossad1967
1st Batman movie comes to mind.
18 posted on 12/30/2002 11:13:35 AM PST by Hammerhead
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To: arkfreepdom
Bowl games worry me.

Clancy had that one pegged years ago in 'Sum of all Fears'. (Insert standard 'The book was way better than the movie' clause here.) I wouldn't be surprised to see Disneyland, a sporting event, a concert, or anything they deem 'inappropriatly fun' get waxed.

Huge gatherings of people having fun attract terrorists like flies. (I've heard that Jerry Garcia was actually assassinated by Islamic terrorists after they went to one of his concerts to see 'hundreds of hippies get stoned'. Apparently it wasn't the kind of stoning they were hoping to see, and they offed him out of bitter disappointment.)

19 posted on 12/30/2002 11:13:52 AM PST by Steel Wolf
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To: Mossad1967
What interests me is how it is being downplayed, five men of interest, until you go to Drudge, read the article from NY Post, but what is most interesting is the fbi.gov website itself. For only "5" men of interest,it is all you see on their front page, with links to press release and fbi poster.
20 posted on 12/30/2002 11:14:15 AM PST by JustPiper
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