FBI: No Specific Terror Threat for July 4

[Newsjock]

but be SCARED anyway!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902499.html

By MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 29, 2005; 7:04 PM

WASHINGTON -- The FBI says there is no specific, credible threat of a terror attack timed to the Independence Day holiday but is warning law enforcement to remain vigilant because the celebrations are inviting targets.

FBI antiterrorism command posts in several cities, including Washington and Philadelphia, will be manned around-the-clock over the holiday weekend because of special events. The bureau has taken that precaution in Washington and Philadelphia every July 4 since the Sept. 11 attacks.

An intelligence assessment that was distributed this week to FBI offices nationwide said that while there is no specific threat, large gatherings pose a target for international and domestic terrorists, according to a law enforcement official who read it. The official asked not to be named because the FBI does not typically make the intelligence document public.

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[DoYouEverWonder]

1. The WH stopped funding all their noise makers

like Talon News after the election.

It's been so much quieter ever since.

[rlc]

2. Now I am worried

With their track record I would rather they knew of an attack at my house then they think there is no attack at all.

[UpInArms]

8. Welcome to DU rlc!

:hi:

Even if they received an engraved invitation giving your address, time, date and day, they would have to send it to an interpreter that chose to ignore it. :eyes:

[Solly Mack]

3. here we go again...support is waning...amp up the alerts

and warnings...

[shraby]

4. Also ramp up the non-warnings.

[Solly Mack]

5. I'm especially fond of those

[Career Prole]

6. No terra alert? The dopes must think

that speech last night went well! :rofl:

[noshenanigans]

7. *ALERT* THIS IS THE FBI!!!

Uh.. yeah, everything's okay. What's wrong? You seem tense.

:hi:
Happy 4th!

[truthisfreedom]

9. sure there is! the bolton recess appointment is terror, pure and simple.

bushco terrorizing America and the world.

[anitar1]

10. Isn't that wonderful? Now I can go to bed tonight and

finally get some sleep!

[anitar1]

11. On second thought, is there something planned for

July 4th? It would be the perfect time to talk about our freedoms being violated.

[Neverarepublican]

12. How about if they warn us of any possible

MIHOP's that Bush may be planning?

[WCGreen]

13. Be afraid be very afraid.....

[VegasWolf]

14. 'Cause no big elections over the holidays. nt

[BattyDem]

15. I know this sounds nuts, but ...

I'd feel safer if they DID issue a terror warning for July 4th! :scared:

[rogue_bandit]

16. If we were to be attacked...

If we were to be attacked it would have happened many times already. It is all too easy and there are all too many targets.

9/11 is how the world lashed out at our insensitivity and imperialistic leadership. All that is left is for us to learn a lesson. Hopefully we are in the process of learning it. I doubt Bush and his cohorts will, but perhaps the majority will.

I heard a lot of jets flying over my house yesterday. I called the airport administration to see if there was an air show. She told me the military was doing touch-and-go's and we were expreriencing, in her words, "a little touch of freedom." I didn't respond what I thought about her intellectual abilities. It was a "little touch of terror" to me.