Posted on 07/31/2004 3:45:34 PM PDT by tmp02
Edited on 07/31/2004 4:31:44 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Big Apple Terror?
Sources: Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations
ABCNEWS.com
N E W Y O R K, July 31, 2004? ABC News has learned that federal and New York City officials have received credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city. |
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| Sources at several law enforcement agencies tell ABC News that an "overseas source" has provided the information about the threat to New York and that it is more significant than the usual "chatter" intercepted from likely terrorists that has prompted warnings in the past. Officials from dozens of local and federal agencies met into the night Friday and again this morning. "Intelligence reporting indicates that al Qaeda continues to target for attack commercial and financial institutions, as well as international organizations, inside the United States," the New York City Police Department said in a statement released today on the "ongoing al Qaeda threat." "The NYPD recommends that corporate and institutional security directors review their protection of HVAC systems, parking installations, and security in general," the statement added. "The alert level for New York City remains unchanged at 'orange' or 'high.'" Border Worries Intelligence sources say al Qaeda plans to move non-Arab terrorists across the border with Mexico. Authorities already have in custody a woman of Pakistani-origin arrested after crossing into Texas. She carried a South African passport with several of the pages torn out, $7,000 in cash and an airplane ticket to New York. New York is already on heightened alert for the Republican National Convention, which meets at Madison Square Garden in a month and will bring scores of high government officials to town. The sources tell ABC News that Wall Street firms may be among the targeted U.S. corporations based in New York City. Which corporations or how many may be targeted has not been revealed. Suicide Truck Bombings Particularly disturbing to authorities were the intelligence reports that the attack may involve one or more suicide truck bombings, a tactic never seen in the United States, but one widely used by terrorists elsewhere. "I think they want to try and shake our psyche again," says Jerry Hauer, an ABC News consultant and former director of New York City's Office of Emergency Management. "And I think the easy types of attacks right now are car bombs, truck bombs." Law enforcement officials acknowledge such bombs are extremely difficult to prevent. As to the timing of any planned attack, sources say it could take place between now and Election Day in November. As the government tries to verify the reports of the threat, there are no plans to raise the national threat level, a senior Bush administration official tells ABC News. ABCNEWS' Pierre Thomas and Bob Jamieson contributed to this report. |
I am NOT wishing any thing bad to happen to ANYONE but what if terrorists hit Hollywood or Paris... would that WAKE UP the liberals??????????
If they are targeting corporations they must be an offshoot of the DNC
Sounds as if you have the media and the dems nailed. That is exactly what will be said.
>>What we need is a wall a la Israel along the Mexican border.<<
That was tried in part of California... the environmentalist wackos had a fit and it wasn't completely built:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1080982/posts
Methinks there should be a suspension of the silly gun laws in NYC to get the population involved in their own safety.
Wasn't 9/11 enough to understand that THEY WANT US DEAD?
AMEN TO THAT!
Didn't the authorities pick off a terrorist in Texas with a plane ticket for NYC a week or two ago? Then there was that flight from Chicago that was obviously cased by an AQ team. IMO, they are going to try to hit the Republican Convention, by ground and possibly by air, while GW is there. Presumably, they will have secondary targets if they can't get close enough to the convention center.
If this happens, it would guarantee a Bush landslide.
Nor am I, but I must admit to secretly thinking about the Eiffle Tower coming tumbling down, though. Does that make me a closet liberal?
No. Moore would make another conspiracy film and scam millions from the useless idiots.
Except for the WTC Bombing #1 and the OKC Bombing.
I agree, Mr. Jeeves. Much of this country has lost its backbone. I hope it's a small number, but so far, it's turning out to be much larger than I ever dreamed it would be.
Would another terrorist attack wake up the liberals? Nope....don't think so. However I do see some average Americans looking to get even and I wouldn't want to be a Muslim when that happens.
bttt
"Plans to?" Hell, they already are! Probably hundreds of them by now. Go here and look at all the articles posted recently on FR about this problem.
We can't blame John sKerry for this, but President Bush could lock down the border tighter than a drum in a matter of hours if he wanted to.
The following was in the "Letters to the Editor" section of the Amarillo paper today. I think the writer is the same Dan True that was a weatherman here in Amarillo for years.
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/073104/opi_letters.shtml
President lacks true grit
"Bring 'em on" George is a flip-flopping wimp for suggesting our November elections be postponed, moved or otherwise tampered with because he is scared of a terrorist attack.
Dan True
Clovis, N.M.
Terrorists attempt something like this, and their ass will be grass.
Turn the entire middle east into a damn parking lot. Maybe then they will get up off their asses and get jobs, rather than this jihad crap.
I am in total agreement. If there's a major attack between now and November 2, who benefits will depend on who best spins the story.
If it happens on November 1 and there's no time to spin, all bets are off.
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