Posted on 08/01/2004 1:14:54 PM PDT by jimbo123
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government provided details Sunday of new intelligence it had obtained that led to the increased threat level against financial institutions, including several specific buildings. A senior intelligence official described the details only on condition of anonymity. He said it was the most extraordinary detail he had seen in 24 years of intelligence work.
-The flow of pedestrians outside one building - 14 people per minute midweek on each side of the sidewalks, or 28 per minute.
-Information that some explosive materials may not be hot enough to melt the steel underpinnings of a building, and a reference to what materials might heat to 2,700 degrees.
-Suggestions for building reconnaissance, such as a window table at a nearby coffee shop.
-Details about specific security checkpoints inside buildings, including a tidbit that people turned left after passing one checkpoint.
-Places to make contact with building employees.
-Construction of some buildings that might prevent their collapse.
-Locations of police stations, fire departments, schools and hospitals in the vicinity of the targets.
-Changes in day-to-day security, including lessened security on Sundays and days when elevators don't operate.
Holy Crap.
I am reminded of the video where bin Laden brags about how the heat from the burning airplanes caused the buildings to collapse. If they go to all the trouble of a terror strike on a building, they want to get the most bang for the buck.
Now that the media has this information, I assume they will predict the time, place, date and participants of this attack. After all, they believe that 911 was entirely preventable, don't they?
I pray that any and all evil plans are thwarted.
Were they.... middle-eastern looking ?
(I'm sorry I asked)
... A senior intelligence official described the details only on condition of anonymity
Everything described in "great detail" except -- the source.
PERSPECTIVE ALERT:We simply bombed everything, and anything that remained we bombed again...and again.
In contrast, the terrorists *are* concerned with pedestrian traffic flow and construction composition...
...because they can't bomb us again and again.
They can get the occasional sneak attack through, and they have to take great pains that those few attacks can maximize the pain and terror inflicted onto us.
But that's not how wars are won. What this intel shows us is that by and large the terrorists are incapable of leading any credible war effort against us. They can inflict some terror onto some soft targets, and that's about all that they can manage to do.
And even there they seem to have trouble hitting very many targets.
5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
In other articles they mention the recent capture by Pakistan of a high level Al Qaeda operative.
It's a good thing the Pakistanis captured him, if we had, we would be giving him a lawyer, and would not allow to interrogate him, other than ask him nicely, if he cared to share any info with us, and you know how much info we would get.
ping
The press in this Bloomberg presser are asking some very stupid questions.
More on the South Africans caught in Pakistan, along with the Tanzanian bomber. Probably comrades of the South African woman captured in Texas. This might be the car/truck bombing leadership.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20040730015349510C919403
Ya, the press is really good at that...
Bloomberg is losing his cool..
Didn't know he had any.
Oh how they would love to replicate 9/11. I don't think they expected the WTC to come down, but when it did it instantly became a model for future "projects."
his poll numbers actually go up when that happens.
what I would like to know is, where is the explosive material being stored that would be used in these attacks? they can't be bringing that over the border with mules, it has to be stored someplace close to the targets so it can be assembled into the truck bomb(s). where are they storing it? what kind of explosives would they use?
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