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Posted on 09/20/2001 3:19:39 PM PDT by ex-Texan
U.S. memo warns of more attacks
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- An internal memo circulated to federal employees Thursday warned that the government has "credible evidence" more terror attacks are being planned on sensitive targets in the United States.
The e-mail memo did not give details.
U.S. agencies are already on heightened alert following last weeks attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A senior administration security official, talking on background, said the memo reinforced many of the public statements by President Bush.
"We're clearly in a heightened state of security, and clearly we're taking precautions," the official said.
In the midst of the largest investigation in U.S. history, a number of people are being held either by the Immigration and Naturalization Service or in federal detention centers.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said last week that "some" of those being held are cooperating with U.S. investigators.
A number of media reports have singled out Saturday, Sept. 22, as the date for a second wave of attacks. But Justice Department officials said Wednesday that information has been examined and rejected.
"We don't have any credible evidence of any threat on Sept. 22," department communications chief Mindy Tucker said. " … There has been a lot of information pertaining to Sept. 22. We have taken a look at that information," but investigators now believe that intelligence to be mistaken.
Even though 19 hijacking suspects died in last week's attacks, "We believe there are associates of the hijackers that have connections to terrorist networks that may be present in the United States," Tucker told reporters Wednesday.
By last count, the INS was holding 115 people who have been caught up in the probe, up from 75 on Tuesday.
Another 200 people are on an FBI "watch list" being circulated to federal, state and local agencies and to the airlines. The FBI says the 200 are not necessarily suspects, just people the bureau would like to talk to in connection with the investigation.
Meanwhile, the FBI said it arrested Nabil al-Marabh in a Chicago suburb Wednesday night. Al-Marabh was held on an assault warrant issued by Boston police.
The 34-year-old al-Marabh, lived in Boston for more than 10 years and was a longtime cab driver.
Investigators reportedly were interested in al-Marabh because he obtained a license to drive trucks carrying hazardous material, including explosives and radioactive material, on Sept. 11, 2000 -- exactly one year before last week's deadly attacks.
Three men -- Karim Koubriti, 23; Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 21, and Ahmed Hannan, 33 -- were arrested at a Detroit home with al-Marabh's name on the mailbox on Monday.
Investigators said they found false identification papers at the house and a diary with notations and diagrams in Arabic relating to a U.S. base in Turkey, the American "foreign minister" and an airport in Amman, Jordan, as well as sketches of airports.
Koubriti, Ali-Haimoud and Hannan were held without bond.
None of the men, including al-Marabh, have been charged directly in connection with terror attacks.
As many as 6,000 people are feared dead after hijackers forced airliners into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Washington last week. A fourth hijacked airliner was forced into the ground in rural Pennsylvania, possibly after passengers stormed the hijackers in the cockpit.
Copyright 2001 by United Press International
Thanks for the ping.
So. . . what such dates are approaching in the next few days and weeks?
Yep, they are. JJ Johnson at Sierra Times wrote an editorial warning truckers that they should carry their weapons with them to work.If JJ Johnson at Sierra Times told you to were garlic around your neck and not to bathe for a week to rid yourself of bad cold - would you do it?I think you would ... advising citizens that "they should carry their weapons with them to work." is as bad as or worse than that.
It's only common sense that you comply with the applicable laws of the state you're in. Not to mention some of these things (like carrying) *may* be against company policy!
Geesh.
Will JJ Johnson at Sierra Times help you post bail if you're picked up CCW without proper permits or find you another job because you intentionally violated company policy?
I think not ... but he'll sure be glad to sell you a subscription to anything his 'rantings' appear in ...
Go order another little plastic set of phony FBI creds to carry with you when you toddle outside to get the mail. Maybe you can impress one of the old ladies who live on your block.
You know, it's an attitude like that coupled with a hair-tigger temper that gets guys with firearms in trouble ...How many murders have we had already owing to miscreants taking the law into their own hands? Too many I'm afraid.
And wild talk and misdirected advice by those like JJ Johnson at Sierra Times is doing nothing but fanning the flames and then someone wholly innocent with family and friends and children meets the unwaranted business end of barrel.
Amercia doesn't need that ...
We'll bring the perps in soon enough on the WTC tragedy. But we'll do it within the framework of law - not vigilate-ism.
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