FBI Warned Police of Possible Terrorist Attacks in LA, NY, Chicago

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBG2Q4R9CE.html

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The FBI has warned police that al-Qaida cells might use fuel trucks as weapons to attack Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, but officials stressed Thursday the warning was based on uncorroborated intelligence.

The warning was distributed Tuesday via a computer network by FBI officials in Los Angeles to law enforcement agencies primarily in California, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.

Though intelligence bulletins usually describe how reliable the information is, this one carried no such statement.

[Bumblebee]

1. Sure, need a scare badly with everything hitting the B's fan.

[saigon68]

49. Scaring the Hell out of everyone.

Nice shot from "Law Enforcement"

On Edit--- Hey guys go eat some donuts

LOL

[bribri16]

57. Especially truckers who might want to form a protest convoy. n/t

[katty]

69. lordy, things outta control, dickie!! send our the Terrrrer alert!

when ya cry wolf too much-people tune-out

[radfringe]

54. and his polling numbers are.......

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls.html

overall average:
7/29 - 8/7
approve: 44.2%
DISAPPROVE: 50.8%

yup - about right for terra-lerts

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

2. Well, if that's true, then

the ersatz cowboy isn't doing a very good of protecting us, is he? Especially since the Mexican border is wide open so's his rich buddies can get cheap labor...

[Vogon_Glory]

3. If I Were A Terrorist, That's Not Where I'd Strike

If I was a terrorist and wished to set off a truck bomb in the USA, I'd pick a location where I'd rack up a whole lot of casualties in a red state or someplace very personal, someplace which would make Gee Dubya squirm.

[Laurenty]

26. Exactly

Blue states are safe. It's the Bush states that need to worry.

[u4ic]

29. Welcome to DU, Laurenty!

:hi:

[Rich Hunt]

42. yes, welcome n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

61. I doubt that the Al Qaeda thugs have that much imagination eom

[annabanana]

68. ... never underestimate.......n.t

[Vogon_Glory]

72. Generalissimo Gee Dubya's Misunderestimation About al Qaeda

Generalissimo Gee Dubya "misunderestimated" al Qaeda's capabilities back in 2001. Whether al Qaeda is likely to smack a red state target or someplace out in the Permian Basin is less clear; as foreigners, and religiously-obsessed foreigners at that, al Qaeda looks likely to have another go at New York City, Washington, or possibly LA.

[BattyDem]

4. Didn't the chimp say today that we couldn't leave Iraq ...

because it was a matter of national security? I wonder what nation he was talking about because we're obviously not the least bit secure! :mad:


By the way ... * is feeling the Camp Casey heat and we get a terror alert. Gee, what a surprise! :eyes:

[DBoon]

18. same nation that is creating all those new jobs

some place other than the USA

[Pachamama]

50. But, but, but...I thought we were fightin'em there, so we don't fight em

here in America? :shrug:

I thought we were safer.....

[DemReadingDU]

58. just some more of Bush's drivel

Bush's ratings are already the lowest of his presidency. Another attack in the U.S., and his ratings will hit bottom.

[Pachamama]

67. I agree....I believe if the Bush Cabal thinks another 9/11-like attack (or

worse than 9/11 in terms of casualties would help "rally American patriotism" behind Bush, I think they are delusional. In fact you are indeed correct, his ratings would go so far south that probably the only people remaining "loyal" to him would be the Jerry Falwell/James Dobson Extremist Rapture-Ready nut jobs, who represent no more than 10-15% of this country.

Next thing you know, the Bush Cabal will be challenging OBL and Terrorists to "Bring it On"....

[Lori Price CLG]

5. 'FBI warned police of possible terrorist attacks in...' three BLUE STATES

Gee, can Rove get any more *obvious?*

Lori Price

[Cocoa]

6. how could that be?

all the terrorists are "there."

:confused:

[tblue37]

19. OK--Who smuggled the flypaper out of Iraq and into the US? (eom)

[Old and In the Way]

7. When the heats on GWB......why does AQ weigh in with new threats?

If GWB was scoring some big political points, that's when I'd think AQ would be making threats. But it always seems to correlate to rough times for Bush. Hmmmmm

[VegasWolf]

9. Yes, a very curious pattern. Don't think he's lying do ya? nt

[eowyn_of_rohan]

28. How long will it take for the sheep to notice this?

If ever they do.

[Kool Kitty]

32. They were talking about this on CNN before I went

to work this afternoon (I went in at 3:30). Looks like "wolf" has been cried just a little too often. Is anyone really paying attention to these warnings anymore? Sure doesn't seem like it.

[Cha]

8. "Might"? The August 6th memo said

bin laden wanted to use airplanes to ram into buildings and bushinc did NOTHING!

Does this have something to do with the Trucks that were going to be used to protest the exhorbitant gas prices?

[marmar]

10. Fear-mongering...

is the last refuge of American neocon scoundrels.

[stepnw1f]

11. Only Democratic Areas?

Very interesting...:tinfoilhat:

[cthrumatrix]

12. must be the "anthrax bomber"

[Lori Price CLG]

13. Yup, apparently, Osama bin Laden is a Reichwing Republican....

You know, it's just like the Iraqi 'insurgents' who shoot doctors, UN-embedded journalists who criticize the Bush occupation (in Iraq), and who blow up Iraqi hospitals. Defies logic, doesn't it?

Lori Price

[Barkley]

23. Cindy Sheehan is getting too much attention.

Yesterday, I wrote that we would need to go on Orange Alert.
People have to remember to be afraid and that our fearless leader and government are protecting us with the Patriot Act.

[Dorian Gray]

63. I"m sure it's all

because it's the blue state. Come on! Those are our three biggest cities, and attacks in all three places would devestate all of American industry and commerce.

You think that the terrorists care if a state is blue or red? They weren't fans of Clinton, either. It's not like they embrace us democrats and revile the republicans. They just dislike us as Americans.

[Walt Starr]

14. Ahhhh, good. I had been worried we might actually be in danger

This confirms in my mind, no terror attacks any time in the near future.

[WillyT]

15. Hmmm... I Was Wondering When The Sheehan Effect Would Generate A Warning !

Appeared right on time by my watch.

AIN'T BUYIN IT NO MORE!!!

:rofl:

[onehandle]

16. Fuel trucks?

A Ryder Truck ala McVeigh* would be much more destructive.

I smell a Rove...uh, Red Herring.


*Timothy McVeigh - Registered Republican, NRA Member.

[shance]

17. Somebody's feeling the heat, and they need to threaten us

How many times are we going to tolerate this?

I wouldn't take the threat lightly necessarily, especially when Administration officials are feeling backed up against a wall.

We need to call it for what it is though. They are threatening Americans.

Our Administration continues to make threats and this is WRONG.

A threat, that is becoming thinner and thinner veiled, and we cannot continue to tolerate it, let innocent people be scapegoated any longer.

[54anickel]

20. Wait a minute, I thougt it was London's financial district

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1691694

Terrorists Will Likely Strike London's Financial District, Senior Police Official Says


LONDON (AP) - The police chief for London's financial district warned Wednesday that terrorists will likely strike the British capital's biggest business hub, where they have already surveyed targets in the area.
Nearly five weeks after four suicide bombers attacked London, killing themselves and 52 other people, James Hart said there was no specific intelligence about a forthcoming attack but insisted the district was at risk.

"We are vulnerable, there are people out there who wish us harm and we should be aware of that," the police chief told The Associated Press. "If you hit the financial center of the United Kingdom, it's a high-profile thing to do."

Asked if it was a question of when the financial district would be struck, rather than if, Hart replied: "Yes, I don't doubt that at all."

[u4ic]

31. Geography has never been Bush's strong point n/t

[progressivebydesign]

21. Don't they know they're giving in to the terrorists with those warnings?

I mean.. think about it.. terrorists.. terror. What is the goal of a terrorist? "terror". So these vague warnings do jack shit for all of us (I mean what are we going to do? Stay away from fuel trucks?), and only give the terrorists what they want.. scaring the shit out of average people.

[alphafemale]

22. Remember ......WOLF TICKETS for SALE !!!!

Bullshit I say.

[barb162]

24. I saw a piece on MSNBC this morning where the terrorists

have these very large missiles, not the shoulder fired ones, but really big ones. It said be on guard (?)at least through 9-11 as the terrorists were feeling optimistic. They have Bush on the run, they nailed London, etc and want to keep up the momentum.

[Laurenty]

27. Yep

The USA's going to pay for what it's done.

[Rich Hunt]

43. uh-huh

:kick:

[goforit]

25. Mihop?

[Sven77]

30. terror drill in charleston

terror drill in charleston, they take a nuke off a boat and detonate it in the city. they always use drills to cover-up a real terrorist attack. just like on 9/11 and 7/7 london. cheney will attack Iran regardless of whether they are behind the next attack.
Bush is on vacation with lowest polls in history, not a safe time for Americans.

[shadowknows69]

35. No, please

my best friend is in Charleston. The world will not be a nice place without her.

[Lecky]

74. Uh I live there

So I'm hoping this drill is just what it says...a drill.

[Gregorian]

33. So we aren't SAFER after all.

Patriot Act. Acts I and II.



/Strolls off into sunset whistling. Happy trails. I'll keep rolling along, deep in my heart there's a song. Here on the range, I belong. Drifting along with the tumbling tumble weed.

[Roland99]

70. Not even close!

[shadowknows69]

34. Someone talk me down

or back up from pit of depression I've fallen into today. seeing the clown king of crime standing just 5 miles from that brave woman today spewing the automated party line without even a hint of a disingenous attempt at empathy made me really blue and hopeless feeling. This war simply won't end while he and his ilk are in power and I don't see what legal recourse any of us have left. Particularly since all legal hopes for justice have been lost in corruption on both sides. Why are we going to have to see thousands of our soldiers die in the next 3 years. Most of which dutifully believe the hollow reasons for it. Otherwise how could they even carry out orders like the razing of Fallujah. This new tidbit doesn't help. We'll almost assuredly be wholsale slaughtering Iraninans by this time next year. Probably with nuclear fire. Not to get all metaphysical but sometimes I think this world has been lost to some dark and sinister force and there aren't enough of us with the light left to oppose it. We will be the authors of our own extinction where had we taken a different path ages ago we would have been Gods by now.

"What can men do against such reckless hatred"
-Peter Jackson's "The Two Towers"

<edit> I know you probably won't read this but I am sorry Cindy. I am ashamed in the face of your bravery for despairing so.

[ninkasi]

37. On the CBS affiliate news in Houston...

they lead the news by saying...and I will admit, this is from memory, but the meaning is the same..."And finally, President Bush confronts a woman's grief at losing her son."

Naturally, I thought that on the couple of hours I hadn't been online, the little coward had actually been man enough to go out and talk to Cindy. No...they showed his canned speech, where he babbled about what some people felt, and apparently since he more or less acknowledged that Cindy exists, it was spun into him holding a face to face talk with her.

That, at least, is how it appeared to me. If anybody else caught the Channel 11 news this afternoon, maybe they can tell me what the announcer really said. I'm just giving the impression I was left with before I actually watched the segment.

[Voltaire99]

38. There is no shame in despairing.

All of us feel or have felt it. No sane person can completely avoid despair in these dark days.

Maybe it helps that others have known it, too, and still carried on at times that appeared as bad or even worse than ours. W.H. Auden, for instance, on the eve of WWII...

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.


The full poem is here, and good it is for a weary heart:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15545

[shadowknows69]

41. Thanks Voltaire

that did help. you just offering to help helped actually. I suffer from depression and while mostly beaten it still rears its head when the bullshit gets too thick. It hasn't been quite as incapacitating lately as it seemed today for some reason but I think some sleep will go a long way. Thanks again.

[TankLV]

36. Let's see: Bunkerboy's poll numbers in the toilet. Check.

Plame scandal going into higher gear. Check.

More evidence appears that supports the idea of LIHOP or MIHOP. Check.

Etc.
Etc.
Check.

Time for to rev up the fear machine. Check.

[Ouabache]

40. yep, martial law in Ny pretty much shuts down fitzG

and cui bono?

[Rich Hunt]

45. that's a bit scary n/t

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

39. uh oh... break out the duct tape & be very afraid

*yawn*

[Rainscents]

44. I feel something bad is going to happen... Bush need another 9/11

event or something close to it, so he can justified his war and put the fear back.

[drfresh]

46. Boo!!

Terr'ists!! Boogaboogabooga!

Start your panic and write another check to the GOP. :puke:

[SoCalDem]

47. Sounds like someone's been renting DVDs again

EVERYTHING you HAVE becmes a target when you make it your life's work to piss off as many people as you CAN..

[lala_rawraw]

48. Red, orange, green, whatever... nice to see the AP

still used for terra threats.

[andino]

51. What's Bushs poll numbers at again???

[Nihil]

52. There's a reason for that ...

> Though intelligence bulletins usually describe how reliable the
> information is, this one carried no such statement.

They're having to extend the scale downwards to cover the new set of
"warnings" for this month from the original five-points:

- Definite attack
- Significant threat
- Possible threat
- Some risk
- Slight risk

to include a few new ones:

- Neglible risk
- You have got to be joking
- Absolutely fuck-all chance of anything happening
- Automatically triggered from Bush's approval rating

[Shipwack]

53. Wasn't this warning given before, right after 9/11?

I seem to recall that some municipal trucks went missing...

Oh, wait, I'm on the internet now... I can research instead of just posting. One second
.
.
.

Hmmm 70,000 hits, but not what I was looking for. There was a spate of warnings last year about missing trucks being used for terrorist attacks, but they were almost all found. I probably missed something somewhere, because I'm using Yahoo, and not Google, which I know better (I can't connect ot google lately, for some reason)

[Rich Hunt]

55. certain major newspapers...

...are now saying that it would be an "anniversary attack".

That's a deviation from what this original story said, I'll note.

And we're not that dumb, are we?

[Nihil]

56. We might not be but ...

... we may be outnumbered ...

[davsand]

59. The bastards can afford to burn FUEL????

Do they have any idea how freaking much a tank of GAS costs these days? Oh, and BTW, there might be a few casualties too...

(sarcasm off) I feel much better for having vented just a bit.



Laura

[FreakinDJ]

60. I think Bush is going to let another attack happen

I just feel it

Too much is not going the Neo-cons way these days. rove on the ropes and a possible indictment of Puppet George himself spells disaster for the American public.

Many folks here explored the thoery of LIHOP for 2 years and were finally dismissed as Tin-foilers. Next we might be saying those "who forget their past are doomed to live the future"

[Chicago1]

66. The Senators and Congress have figured out this Attack Distraction Tactic

The whole Congress and Senate have already figured out that to turn things around for the Bush Crime Mafia, they're going to have to manufacture another terrorists attack or HUGE HUGE distraction.

I'm sure the FBI and CIA have already been watching and listening for another distaster by the Bushes and will either leak intelligence or STOP IT ALL TOGETHER. They know how this bunch function!!!!!!

[1956]

75. This is our greatest hope

That someone with authority to pull the whistle on these ****'s will do their duty as patriots and not look the other way this time!!!
That "drill" in Charleston must have quite the stew going on down there right now. It would be interesting to watch what's really going on, to see how many people that don't look like military drill types, what they're preparing, who they are calling. Please someone with authority -go down there and do your civic duty! Call someone!!!

[Podface]

73. One thing is for sure

the only way out of all this negative press for Bushco, IS
domestic crisis. If one happens, I think it will confirm tin
foil hats are necessary in this day and age. There is no way
to diffuse the crawford protest and the growing, glowing
support for her at the national press level. 

If he leaves Crawford to rush to the country's call in
Washington, Cindy will be holding her hand on her ass waiting
for the next interview.

[Rich Hunt]

76. that's a possibility

I don't think al Qaeda is so dumb that they would use the same tactics again.

I believe I heard MSNBC saying that a weekend attack is a possibility.

[leesa]

62. Blah...blah...blah...BushCo needs to pull off another 9-11, eh?

[SemperEadem]

64. *'s numbers are in the toilet, so let's cull some citizens

scare them into supporting *.

[Chicago1]

65. TO KKKARL ROVE: WE HAVE FIGURED OUT YOUR TACTICS

KKKarl,


We have figured out THAT YOU MANUFACTURE DISTRACTIONS IN THE MEDIA TO DIVERT THE ATTENTION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM THE NEGATIVE BUSHIE HEADLINES.


We ARE NOT stupid. This is an old tactic and we have figured out how you function.

WE SEE THROUGH YOUR DISTRACTION TACTICS.

[triguy46]

71. We kkkknow the drill...

Things looking bad? Try cranking the old fear generator. They fail to realize that its not working. The boy is crying wolf too often. At best they are covering their a***s. If they "warn" frequently enough, through random chance, they might be able to be in the neighborhood of the next attack. There was noreliability assessment because they kkknow its bs.

[brentspeak]

77. This is Monica Crowley time!

Her entire schtick is to fearmonger whenever a new terror alert pops up.