FBI warns of Islamic State threat to Mississippi River bridge

http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-warns-islamic-state-threat-mississippi-river-bridge-151250133.html ^

[Thistooshallpass9]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has warned local authorities of a threat that Islamic State militants would blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday. The bridge is a major route connecting Tennessee and Arkansas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation passed the threat on to local police in a bulletin out of an "abundance of caution," spokesman Chris Allen said. "This is an unsubstantiated, anonymous threat," he said, adding that there was no useful intelligence arising from it. Allen had no details on when the threat was received or how. The warning was reported by Fox13 News in Memphis. The television station quoted the FBI warning as saying that according to an anonymous tipster, Islamic State had instructed a person in Memphis "to blow up the Memphis-Arkansas bridge on an unknown date, activating ISIS terror cells in the United States." The Islamic State group has seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria and declared a sovereign state.

[knarf]

Oh ... BRING IT, ragheads ... f’n BRING it !

[kevslisababy]

Well, at least if that happens we will know the terror cells have been activated and we will know to defend ourselves.

[huldah1776]

So I gather Tennessee is a pieceful place in spots?

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/muslim-imam-in-tennessee-christians-and-jews-are-most-evil-of-all-evils-muslims-may-take-their-lives-and-property/

[petro45acp]

“FBI WARNS ISLAMIC STATE, THREAT TO MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE...”

There, fixed it.

#ellipsismatter

KYPD

[bunkerhill7]

Of course what is goonna happen is that it is a state of war and 1941-42 will happen all over again-

Out of fear that the USA will be attacked from the inside by declared enemies, internment was the only answer in 1941-42-

Otherwise a backlash will result if the US govt does not protect its citizens from 5th columnist moslem terror cells in America, and the threats will never never never end-

Who wants to live like this?

Get rid of the problem once and for all.

In the cold war we were under missile threat from the USSR outside- we could cope with that- at least we know from whence and whom the threat came and they could be targeted..
Here we do not even know who is going to target us but we know they have a religious common factor- gimme a break!!

[massgopguy]

Can they wait until Al Sharpton leads the Furgerson protesters on to it before pushing the button?

[nascarnation]

If they impact travel to Graceland, there’s gonna be hell to pay!

[Always A Marine]

There are surprisingly few high-capacity crossing points along the Mississippi River, handling a staggering volume of rail and truck cargo. Those bridges present a strategic vulnerability to the United States; the loss of any one of them would throw a major wrench into US commerce, and the loss of two or more would create chaos. Peter T. Deutermann (author and retired Captain, USN) wrote the 1999 novel Train Man about just such a scenario, and the idea has bothered me ever since.

[VanShuyten]

All you have to do is look back to the effects of the large Mississippi and Missouri River floods of the recent past on river crossings and nearby highways to see what can happen.

[I want the USA back]

The world would be infinitely better without the IS crowd.

[pallis]

Muslims will be Muslims. Live with them at your own risk.

[PATRIOT1876]

There ain't no PLO down in Arab, Alabama,
And up in Paris, Tennessee, they don't eat escargot,
And Irish people don't shoot each other in good old Dublin, Georgia,
And there ain't no one named Gorbachev in Moscow, Idaho.
The streets of Berlin, Maryland, ain't got no Iron Curtain,
And folks from Cuba, Missouri, ain't out high-jacking planes,
And people that live in London, Kentucky, don't talk like Richard Burton,
And there's only one kind of coke that comes from Peru, Maine.

I wouldn't put up with an Ayatollah if there was a Tehran, Texas,
And mommas wouldn't name kids Mohammad in Tripoli, Arkansas,
San Salvador, Mississippi, might be a right peaceful town,
And if there was a Beirut, Louisiana,
Baby, I'd feel safe and sound.

Let's take Castro to Kentucky and put a coal shovel in his hand,
And marry him off to one of Loretta's sisters, we'd never see him again,
Put Arafat in a fur-lined hat and take all the sheetheads he knows,
And jumbo-jet ‘em to Nome, Alaska, and make ‘em be Eskimos.

Well there ain't no PLO down in Arab, Alabama,
And up in Paris, Tennessee, they don't eat escargot,
And Irish people don't shoot each other in good old Dublin, Georgia,
And there ain't no one named Gorbachev in Moscow, Idaho.

I said a big truck takes the garbage off in Moscow, Idaho.

[piasa]

Is this the same bridge the BLM protestors were lounging on?