Thanks! Hope its a SHOCKA!
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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Yup. November was supposed to be the month, then December. No on can say when the nutballs will get lucky, but you can assume that Iraq will be on the menu after any major event.
New doctrine -- one terrorist attack, one country.
And has created a new syndrone called: Orange Level Alert Syndrone (OLAS)
Thanks! Hope its a SHOCKA!
If you really give that tale any credance at all, then I have a wonderful bridge for sale...
My niece lives near O'Hare airport in a community of hundreds of Arab tenants and swears all five look familiar.
Drudge has the link to the New York Post story about the 19, for whatever reason the five the FBI is profiling sllipped over the Canadian border about 12/24.
They are only vague because the FBI is not revealing more on their website. Look at it this way, not every warning comes with front page fbi.gov pictures. Consider in the factor what we are not being told.
I first heard about the five men of interest on MSNBC this am. got on the net and there is even more info. Back on MSNBC this afternoon and now the info about these five crossing the Canadian border.
True once again no specific warning, yes its vague, but yes the FBI knows more specifics than they care to tell.
Impossible. When they did the autopsy the doctors found absolutely no blood in his drug veins. :-P
LMAO! thanx!
Posted on 12/30/2002 10:44 AM CST by jimbo123
With the New Year's holiday approaching, the FBI is searching for several men of Arab ancestry after receiving intelligence they crossed illegally into the United States from Canada and may have connections to others under watch in terrorism investigations, law enforcement officials said Monday.
The FBI has no specific information the men are plotting a terrorist attack, but they want to question them about possible connections to individuals who are involved in terrorism, the officials said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
In Seattle, Dan Harrington told the FBI he rode a Greyhound bus across the border with one of the men whom agents want to question, reports Rick Price of CBS News affiliate KIRO.
"Now he was definitely on the same bus as me down from Canada," Harrington said, pointing to a photograph of Mustafa Khan Owasi. "And it was definitely Christmas Eve,"
Harrington said federal agents detained Owasi during an unusually long delay at the border:
"I could hear the INS guy saying, 'Well basically that's not what you told me, your story keeps changing.' And they ended up leading him away," Harrington said.
Though he says Owasi never got back on that bus, which then continued to Seattle, Harrington finds it all disturbing. It's unclear what happened to Owasi after Harrington claims he last saw him.
Among the locations authorities were focusing their search on is New York, based on information received from at least one intelligence source, the officials said.
Because of the large gathering of Americans in New York City on New Year's Eve, authorities were taking the information seriously and pursuing the men even though there is no specific information that they are planning any activities, the officials said.
On Sunday, the FBI enlisted the public's help by putting out photos and names of five of the men they are seeking: Abid Noraiz Ali, Iftikhar Khozmai Ali, Owasi, Adil Pervez and Akbar Jamal, all born between 1969 and 1983.
The FBI warned that the names and birth dates may be false.
The FBI said it had "no specific information that these individuals are connected to any potential terrorist activities, but based upon information developed in the course of on-going investigations, the FBI would like to locate and question these persons." It also said the men are believed to have entered the United States illegally on or around Christmas Eve.
Officials said the intelligence indicated the men crossed from Canada but that there was no specific information on what port of entry.
One official said U.S. authorities' interest in them was heightened when an intelligence source provided information that some of the men being sought were connected to others who are the subjects of terrorism investigations.
The FBI said it was working with the Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Transportation Security Administration to find the men.
INS spokesman Dan Kane said his agency has "implemented additional measures to look for these individuals."
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