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Internet jihadi chatter may have indicated that Al Qaeda plans to lauch a biochemical attack in the heart of Times Square, targeting MTV studios and highly populated areas.Malls in the Washington DC area should be on alert. Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is also a possible target of attack 11 days after the US elections.Attack was said to happen 11 days after election day if Bush was re-elected to correspond with the date of September 11. Sears Tower of Chicago Il. is also considered a definite target.Employees working in the Sears Tower advised to consider staying home on the...

U.S. Unsure if Election Terror Plot Foiled More than 700 people were arrested on immigration violations and thousands more subjected to FBI interviews in an intense government effort to avert a terrorist attack aimed at disrupting the election. As with past unrealized al-Qaida threats, law enforcement officials said Thursday they don't know for sure whether any of those arrests or interviews foiled an attack. "It's very hard to prove a negative," Michael Garcia, chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in an interview Thursday. "We did cases and operations for people we thought posed national security concerns. We didn't arrest...

We stood in lines, our voter registration clutched in hand and waited. And, it didn't happen. Some of us stood, sweating in the heat; others shivered in the cold or the snow or the rain. And it didn't happen. It didn't happen today, or yesterday, or over the weekend. It was something many of us expected, and it didn't happen. The al-Qaieda terrorist attack that many of us felt certain was headed toward America, DIDN'T happen. The blood didn't run in the street as had been promised. There were no bombs, no attacks; nothing but election lines and snafus. If...

Suppose there were al-qaida attacks at polling places tomorrow, and people stayed home out of fear. The Bush administration had tried to plan* for delaying the vote in this case, but the Democrats blocked it. When the polls close at the end of the day tomorrow, the early voters will have determined the results. 10,000 Democrat lawyers would be standing at the polling place doors to prevent them being open after the official closing time*. The federal government would have no way of stopping it even if only 20% of registered voters had voted*. Kerry would win. *http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3885663.stm US 'may...

..."We are concerned because a number of different threat reports we've received over the past few months indicate terrorists plan to disrupt the democratic process," said one official with access to intelligence reports. Officials said that since the spring, numerous information sources, both electronic and human, have indicated that al Qaeda is planning a major attack on the United States or on U.S. targets abroad before the Nov. 2 election. ..."

Sky News reporter sparked fear with his audience when he started talking about election day attack.

On Saturday it will be 3 days before our election. Three days (72 hrs exactly) before Spain's election, two commuter trains were bombed with the loss of hundreds of lives. Spain's incumbent President was well ahead in the polls up to that point. He lost 3 days later to the challenger who had been running on a platform of withdrawing Spain's troops from Iraq ASAP. Al Qaeda learned a big lesson then. Terrorism can throw an election their way. Am I just being paranoid? I've been wondering every day for weeks now --- in an election this close, could two...

NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2004 — A man describing himself as an American member of al Qaeda says a new wave of terror attacks against the United States could come "at any moment," according to a videotape obtained by ABC News.The tape was acquired by ABC News last Friday from a source known to have Taliban and al Qaeda contacts in the tribal region of Pakistan. ABC paid the source $500 in transportation fees. While CIA officials say they have not been able to authenticate the 75-minute tape, an agency spokesman says it "appears to have been produced by al...

A senior FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some of the leads were culled from interviews with thousands of individuals that agents have conducted in the Muslim community. The official would not be more specific, but said the FBI continues to have misgivings about possible Al Qaeda intentions to launch an attas for the person who warned the CIA, at least some of that individual's reporting no longer is seen as credible, said a U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official stressed, however, that a number of other sources point to terrorist activity around the...

FBI investigators have made new arrests and developed leads that reinforce concerns that terrorists plan to strike around the US presidential election. However, the CIA has discredited one person who told its agents of such a plot involving al-Qaeda. A senior FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, today said some of the leads were culled from interviews with thousands of individuals that agents had conducted in the Muslim community. The official would not be more specific, but said the FBI continued to have misgivings about possible al-Qaeda intentions to launch an attack with the goal of affecting the elections....

WASHINGTON -- FBI investigators have made new arrests and developed leads that reinforce concerns that terrorists plan to strike around the presidential election, officials said Saturday, even though the CIA has discredited a person who told its agents of such a plot involving al-Qaida. A senior FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some of the leads were culled from interviews with thousands of individuals that agents have conducted in the Muslim community. The official would not be more specific, but said the FBI continues to have misgivings about possible al-Qaida intentions to launch an attack with the goal...

*John Loftus reported tonight that Mookie Al Sadr was under house arrest by Sistani. *Al Qaeda is planning a strike in Beruit Lebanon. *U.S. believes that Al Qaeda sleeper cells are poised to strike in the US before Nov 2nd. However, the US is keeping their eyes on these cells.

WASHINGTON -- Authorities across the greater Washington metropolitan area are planning for the possibility of terror attacks at local polling places on Election Day. Homeland Security officials have warned of a vague election threat, but haven't offered specific guidance.

In a worst-case scenario quietly presented last month by a joint CIA-FBI agency that analyzes intelligence, al Qaeda would use weapons of mass destruction to launch multiple simultaneous attacks on the United States and overwhelm the U.S. government. It was an extreme possibility on a menu of unknowns that had less-threatening options. All 535 members of Congress continued to work as usual until this week, when Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) shut his offices, sent his staff home and cautioned people against visiting Capitol Hill. The surprising response by the freshman senator from Minnesota to the latest in a series of...

WASHINGTON - A Democratic senator said Tuesday he is closing his Washington office because of a top-secret intelligence report that made him fear for his staff's safety. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., said his office in the Russell Senate Office Building across the street from the Capitol will be closed while Congress is in recess through Election Day, with his staff working out of his Minnesota office and in Senate space off Capitol Hill. "I take this step out of extreme, but necessary, precaution to protect the lives and safety of my Senate staff and my Minnesota constituents, who might otherwise...

. Does a Bush-Cheney Pre-Election Surge Trigger A Major Terrorist Attack ? President Bush has added to his growing election lead since last Friday's debate. and will presumably increase that lead after the third presidential debate. Consider these scenarios. If Kerry-Edwards manage to pass Bush-Cheney in the polls, then the Islamo-Fascist Terrorists need only to quietly sit by and watch Kerry win election. On the other hand, if Bush-Cheney maintains or increases their electorial lead, it's to the Islamo-Fascist Terrorist's advantage to hit America with a savage repeat of Sept 9-11, in an attempt to convince the critical "Undecided Voters"...

WASHINGTON-- Sen. Mark Dayton said Tuesday he is closing his Washington office because of a classified intelligence report which made him fear for the safety of his staff. Dayton, D-Minn., said the office will be closed while Congress is in recess through Election Day, with his staff working out of his Minnesota office and in Senate space off Capitol Hill. ``I take this step out of extreme, but necessary, precaution to protect the lives and safety of my Senate staff and my Minnesota constituents, who might otherwise be visiting my Senate office in the next three weeks,'' he said on...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Arab-Americans and Muslims in Florida are questioning the FBI's latest plan to interview people nationwide to uncover possible terrorist plots that could disrupt the presidential election next month. For the past week, FBI officials have held meetings across Florida with Islamic community leaders to explain a July directive from FBI Director Robert Mueller to seek new information about suspicious activity ahead of the Nov. 2 election. Although Arab-American community leaders said they understand the need for vigilance, they raised questions about the plan. "Our community is already afraid and jittery, because there has already been several rounds...

PHOENIX (AP) - With the final presidential debate in Tempe less than two weeks away, the FBI is increasing efforts to interview Phoenix-area residents, including Muslims, as part of a nationwide plan to prevent a terrorist attack before the Nov. 2 election, agents said. Susan Herskovits, the FBI's spokeswoman in Phoenix, said this latest push aimed to increase intelligence by contacting as many people as possible - not just Muslims. "We're worried about an attack on American soil," Herskovits told the East Valley Tribune. "It isn't really targeting any group."

‘Zawahiri’s message may herald a large-scale attack in the United States or even in Israel before the presidential election’ Al Qaeda’s number two leader Ayman Al Zawahiri has hijacked the US concept of a pre-emptive strike, used to try to justify the invasion of Iraq, to urge young Muslims to attack countries backing Washington and Israel, analysts said on Saturday. In an audiotape broadcast on Qatar’s Al Jazeera television on Friday, Zawahiri effectively called on Muslim youth to “take the initiative and wage a preventive war, a concept championed by the United States,” Abdelbari Atwan, editor of the London-based pan-Arab...

U.S. law enforcement agencies warned authorities in Miami that the al Qaeda terrorist organization might try to attack during the first presidential debate tomorrow, a government spokeswoman said. The advisory by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security cited no specific intelligence that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack Miami, where President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry are scheduled to debate, said Katy Mynster, deputy press secretary for Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. “Although we continue to remain concerned about al-Qaeda’s desire to disrupt our democratic process, there is no information that terrorists...

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI warned authorities in Florida that Thursday's presidential debate at the University of Miami could be an attractive target for terrorists. The agencies sent an assessment of potential terrorist threats and tactics to Florida Homeland Security Adviser and to the FBI's Miami field office. "We do not have any specific information or intelligence to suggest that this first presidential debate is a target," a DHS official said, adding that there was no specific threat information against any of the debates. The official said that the face-offs between President Bush and Democratic nominee John...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has conducted thousands of interviews and will step up efforts to thwart a possible attack by al Qaeda in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 2 election, senior U.S. officials said on Monday. Senior administration officials said the interviews were part of a process begun last spring, when officials first warned that al Qaeda might try to attack the United States in the run-up to the national election. "We are going to put kind of a full-court press on between now and the next five or six weeks," said a senior FBI official. Homeland...

(PRWEB) September 25, 2004 - The ACSA’s “Thought Share on Terrorism” (TSoT) Team issued an elevated Terror Threat Alert to it’s 9.5 million regular and associate members today, after the study group issued a statement predicting an upcoming, election-shaking Terror Attack “with details”. The ACSA (American Computer Scientists Association | http://acsa.net) indicated it felt October 6 and 7th were very likely “Al Qaeda Profiled” days for such an attack to occur. It also stated that any such attack could be delayed to occur closer to the actual US Elections, but for the Democratic Party to seize an opportunity to try...

Al-Zarqawi planning major attack in Europe or US (Al-Watan) The BBC Worldwide Monitoring reports that an Arabic website, www.al-watan.com, contained a report on September 22 from Paris by Abd-al-Karim Abu-al-Nasr stating that “Al-Zarqawi striving to compete with Bin-Ladin, planning big attack along the lines of 11 September.” Reportedly, the Iraqi intelligence agencies have prepared a report on Abu-Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, the commander of the Tawhid wa Jihad group. The European sources disclosed that the security and intelligence services in a number of European countries have information that Al-Zarqawi is ‘determined’ to carry out an operation similar to that of 11 September...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has urged federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials to keep up efforts to thwart a possible attack by al Qaeda in the weeks leading up to the November election. Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General James Comey took the unusual step of holding a conference call with all 93 U.S. Attorneys last week for a "pep talk" to urge them not to let down their guard in light of a potential terror threat, a senior Justice Department official said on Thursday. The official, who took part in the call, said Ashcroft and Comey...

WASHINGTON — Federal officials are increasingly concerned that a terrorist attack is being planned for the weeks prior to the Nov. 2 presidential election. "Every day there is new information that raises the level of anxiety," said one law enforcement official who declined to be identified. The concern, based on intelligence reporting of multiple sources, is that the plots or plot may be in the final stages of planning — and ready to be executed at any time, the official said. On Sept. 13, Attorney General John Ashcroft (search) held a conference call with U.S. attorneys throughout the nation, according...

(CBS) Convinced that al Qaeda is still determined to disrupt the U.S. fall elections by an attack on the homeland, FBI officials here are preparing a massive counter-offensive of interrogations, surveillance and possible detentions they hope will disrupt the terrorist plans, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart. FBI field offices and Homeland Security agencies will be advised of "extraordinary measures" that will go into place "beginning the first week of October through the elections." An internal e-mail advisory to supervisory agents this week from the FBI's "'04 Threat Task Force" said the purpose of the counter-offensive is "to foster the...

MANCHESTER — White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said he believes terrorists want to strike America to disrupt the November general election. “I happen to believe that the terrorists want to attack us and they desperately would like to do something to disrupt our democratic process so I am not sanguine about the terrorists taking time off during the election season,” Card said in an interview during a brief swing to this Presidential battleground state yesterday. “I believe they have the desire to do it and that’s why we have to be on our toes all the time,” Card...

WASHINGTON - Terrorists still hope to disrupt the U.S. democratic process even though the presidential nominating conventions and other high-profile gatherings this summer went off without incident, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Tuesday. Threat reporting over the last several months has been "consistent, general and credible" and indicated the al-Qaida network is trying to push ahead with its plans, Ridge said. Although large events this summer were not attacked, he said, "that in no way diminishes the level of vigilance, awareness and concern that we have during this entire process." Ridge commented during a morning visit to the National...

The eyes of the political world were on New York Thursday as President Bush delivered his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. But, with foreign policy occupying center stage in a presidential election for the first time since 1972, the outcome of the election may hinge less on what the president does in New York than on what our enemies do in Kabul and Baghdad. Mr. Bush is running as the man who liberated Afghanistan and Iraq. But despite initial U.S. military victories and considerable progress toward democracy (Afghans will vote Oct. 9; Iraqis by Jan. 30), both countries...

September 4, 2004 -- Al Qaeda plans to use fuel-laden trucks to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building and one of the tunnels to New Jersey between Sept. 24 and Oct. 10, an anonymous tipster recently warned federal authorities. Homeland security officials took the tip seriously enough to pass it on to the Police Department and other government agencies this week, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

America's enemies will be doing everything they can to cause George Bush's defeat, writes Max Boot. The eyes of the political world were on New York this week as George Bush delivered his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. But, with foreign policy occupying centre stage in a US presidential election for the first time since 1972, the outcome of the election may hinge less on what the President did in New York than on what America's enemies do in Kabul and Baghdad. Bush is running as the man who liberated Afghanistan and Iraq. But despite initial US military...

Al-Qaeda 'poised for attack on US' BERLIN - The leader of Germany's foreign intelligence agency warned yesterday of the increased likelihood of a major attack by Al-Qaeda terrorists in the weeks before the American presidential election. 'There is fear of a big attack on America by the terror organisation Al-Qaeda before the presidential elections in November,' said Federal Intelligence Service director August Hanning in a speech in Heidelberg reported by Deutsche Presse-Agentur. He said that in the past few months, Al-Qaeda had realigned its organisational structure and personnel resources and the likelihood of terror attacks was 'bigger than ever before'....

WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida may attempt to attack Veterans Affairs hospitals as an alternative to more heavily guarded U.S. military installations, the FBI and Homeland Security Department warn in a new nationwide terrorism bulletin. Although U.S. authorities say there is no credible intelligence regarding a specific threat against such hospitals, the bulletin said there have been persistent reports of "suspicious activity" at medical facilities throughout the United States. That includes "possible reconnaissance activities" this year at unspecified military medical facilities in Bethesda, Md., and Aurora, Colo., the bulletin said. Even though later investigation of these two incidents uncovered no links to...

WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda wants to strike America in the next 60 days in a bid to influence the November elections, a top Bush administration official said yesterday. "Based on intelligence, we are concerned about the August-September time frame, but...it could go through October," the senior White House official said. The official said the preelection threat - which was described as "more than an aspiration" - is not a sign that Al Qaeda wants to help elect Sen. John Kerry President. "This is more about being seen to have influenced the election, as opposed to a particular person," the official...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential election campaign has entered a two-month period when the threat of an al Qaeda attack to disrupt the process could be greatest, a White House official warned on Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited no evidence of an imminent attack inside the United States, but said authorities had gathered increasing detail about possible threats with the wave of arrests of al Qaeda suspects in Pakistan and Britain over the last month. "It's not a presumption that we're imposing ... it is pretty clear, based on the intelligence itself, that al Qaeda...

The latest disclosures of al Qaeda's plans for another major attack in New York City in hopes of disrupt ing the election should finally put the lie to those who claim the recent terror alert was a politically timed sham. Like Howard Dean, the defeated White House hopeful and now surrogate for John Kerry who charged that "every time something happens that's not good for President Bush, he plays this trump card, which is terrorism." In fact, far from being a campaign ploy, the alert declared by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge was based on new, specific information that was...

Al-Qaeda operatives captured in Pakistan were plotting terrorist attacks aimed at influencing the US presidential elections in November, a senior Pakistani intelligence official told AFP. The terrorist network was looking to pull off major attacks in the United States, Britain or Pakistan in the run-up to the polls but its capacity has been crippled by recent arrests in Pakistan, said the official. "The network was looking to strike a major blow ahead of the elections. Al-Qaeda was looking to strike in the United States or its chief allies Great Britain and Pakistan," said the official, asking to remain anonymous. "The...

Al-Qaïda prepared attacks for presidential American (information) Al-Qaïda members stopped in Pakistan revealed that the terrorist network prepared attacks for the presidential election of November in the United States, declared Tuesday a high person in charge for the services Pakistani of information. "the network sought to strike a great blow before the elections. Al-Qaïda sought to strike in the United States or its British allies and Pakistani ", declared with the AFP the person in charge under cover for anonymity. The period preceding the American presidential elections is very critical ", it added.

It's called the president's Daily Threat Report (PDTR), or, in bureaucratic shorthand, the Putter. The document is so secret that only about a half-dozen people in the U.S. government are allowed to see it. When the Putter contains especially sensitive information, a red stripe runs down the side. At 6:40 a.m. on Friday, July 30, Fran Townsend, the president's homeland-security adviser and counterterror chief for the national-security staff, opened up her red-striped Putter and received a jolt. (snip) The Friday-morning Putter revealed that an undercover operation on the far side of the world was starting to bear fruit. In mid-July,...

Brown's photo 'on al-Qaida disks' Seized computers included chancellor's image among information on potential US attacks David Teather in New York and Patrick Barkham Monday August 9, 2004 The Guardian Details emerged yesterday of potential terrorist targets found on captured al-Qaida computers, including a downloaded picture of Gordon Brown, and possible plans to use helicopters to attack New York. Information gleaned from the three laptops and 51 computer disks seized in Pakistan led to the specific warnings issued last week about possible attacks on five financial institutions in the US. US officials have hailed as a breakthrough the arrests and...

Despite claims that the recent terror alert effecting Washington and New York was released for political purposes, new information reveals chilling details of al-Qaeda’s plans to attack financial and political targets in the U.S. On July 24 Pakistani authorities stormed the house of an al-Qaeda leader and captured three laptop computers and 51 data-rich discs. TIME reports that “stored on the computers were 500 photographs of potential targets inside the U.S., minutely detailed analyses of the vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack of several of them and communications among some of the most wanted terrorists in the world.” A top Homeland...

Kerry opposes vote delay in case of attack BOSTON, Massachusetts: US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said in an interview published on Sunday that he would oppose any move to postpone November's presidential election in the event terrorists launch an attack to disrupt the vote. "I cannot imagine a worse signal to the world than to suggest that this, the greatest democracy in the world, could possibly be disrupted by an act of terror," Kerry told The New York Times. He made his remarks in answer to a question about recent moves by authorities in Washington to explore the process...

Is al Qaeda Preparing a Nuclear Hit?by J. R. Nyquist Top U.S. officials are worried that al Qaeda is preparing a major assault before the November elections. The present level of concern was first voiced by the U.S. Attorney General, then by the Secretary of Homeland Security, and now by the acting Director of Central Intelligence. The warnings qualitatively differ from previous warnings. Two data points serve to explain this qualitative shift. The first data point is the claim that al Qaeda has nuclear weapons that are probably deployed on U.S. soil. The second data point is the fact...

In the July 19 issue of "Newsweek" Michael Isikoff writes: "American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call 'alarming' intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event of such an attack."(1) That report was surprising enough that even Senator John Kerry interrupted his foolishness on the campaign trail to go get himself updated with a national security briefing he hadn't taken time for in previous weeks. As Isikoff reported: "The prospect that Al Qaeda might seek to disrupt the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of a new federal voting commission suggested to congressional leaders that there should be a process for canceling or rescheduling an election interrupted by terrorism, but national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said no such plan is being considered by the administration. Federal officials warned last week that intelligence indicates al-Qaida wants to attack the United States to disrupt the upcoming elections. "There does not appear to be a clear process in place to suspend or reschedule voting during an election if there is a major terrorist attack," DeForest B. Soaries, chairman of the U.S. Election...

Counterterrorism officials have asked the Justice Department to determine if the November presidential election could be postponed in the event a terror attack occurred at that time, Newsweek reported yesterday. The prospect that Al Qaeda might seek to disrupt the U.S. election was a major factor behind last week's terror warning by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, the magazine said. Ridge and other counterterrorism officials concede they have no intelligence about any specific plots. But U.S. officials are fearful because of the success of March's Madrid railway bombings in influencing the Spanish elections. In addition, intercepted "chatter" among Al Qaeda...

"Is Al Qaeda planning to attack key U.S. before the November presidential election? We’ll ask Paul Williams, former FBI consultant and author of "Osama's Revenge.” I did not find anything on the web site except for this.