Fuel terror plot report played down

[emad]

15 August 2005

A report of a possible plot to launch a third terror strike on Britain by targeting petrol stations has been played down by officials.

At the weekend, security chiefs in the United States warned that terrorists may be planning to hijack fuel tankers and drive them into petrol stations.

According to The Times, sources at US Department of Homeland Security revealed that the plan was to strike in the next month in Britain, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

The Department's report states: "Al Qaida leaders plan to employ various types of fuel trucks as vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices in an effort to cause mass casualties... The stated goal is the collapse of the US economy."

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/PA_NEWA12045781124087282A000?source=PA%20Feed

[Betsy Ross]

1. Now there's a way to cut fuel use

Being afraid to fill up could really take a big bite out of driving.

[jsamuel]

2. I see this as an excuse for tripling gas prices already

this way they can blame it on "terrorists" instead of their own incompetence and the oil companies...

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Mass casualties at the gas stations?

Are they going to run over and change the price to $1.99 and get a backup of traffic or something? :crazy:

[blue_7th_nj]

4. Based on Iraq?

This was a tactic used by a suicide bomber in Iraq in, I think, June.

[Rich Hunt]

5. hmmm...

I wonder if certain other media are going to correct themselves.

This article says "sometime in the next month".

Some other papers said there would be a lovely "anniversary strike".

As if terrorists are that cliche - they love feeling like they're putting one over everyone.

[undergroundpanther]

6. Isnt that what the Neocons want too?

To collapse the US govt.,to drain the money from the federal govt going to the people,and bankrupt the states ,One neeocon asshole put it like drowning a baby in bathwater?

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Funny how they never predict the real terrorist events.

Just the ones that bubble up from urban legend.