Classified bulletin warns of 'nonspecific' al Qaeda threat to U.S.

[smoogatz]

Officials: Bin Laden message to al-Zarqawi intercepted

Classified bulletin warns of 'nonspecific' al Qaeda threat to U.S.

From Jeanne Meserve
CNN

Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Posted: 0950 GMT (1750 HKT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. intelligence has intercepted a communication from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq that "reiterates the desire by al Qaeda to target the homeland," U.S. officials have said.

A classified bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security, issued Friday, warns state homeland security advisers and other authorities of "credible but nonspecific threat information" reaffirming al Qaeda's intent to strike the United States.

According to two government officials, the information was picked up recently from an intercepted communication believed to have been from bin Laden to al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born terrorist whose followers are blamed for some of the bloodiest attacks in the war in Iraq.

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Guess the old approval rating's below 50% again. Boogaboogabooga!!!

[cthrumatrix]

1. I'm sure Sibel Edmonds could tell us alot more..... that's why the gag

order is on her....she translated alot of information that the Govt doen't want you to know

Maybe it 's their little propagnada games or mafia-like transactions

[Ezlivin]

2. If only we had the seat numbers and flight info...

Face it, these fuckers never have enough information to protect us.

Yet they manage to have the information to wage war on others.

[ck4829]

3. Why is it that every terror warning now is publicized?

But, before 9/11, we did not even know of the 52 warnings that Bush had received.

[shaolinmonkey]

5. They used to listen in on Osama's satellite phone until

some moron said, "we're listening to satellite phones".

Also notice how rare these warnings have become since the election.

[gratuitous]

9. That moron was Orrin Hatch

The Senator from Utah couldn't wait to get in front of cameras and microphones right after 9/11 to brag about all the cool insider spy stuff he knew about, and blabbed that the U.S. had been monitoring bin Laden's cell phone conversations. Naturally, that source dried up tout de suite, though Hatch suffered no repercussions for his intemperate remarks.

But if Al Qaeda strikes on U.S. soil again, it may be beyond even the considerable powers of the corrupt Bush administration and their mighty Republican Wurlitzer to excuse Stupidhead and his incompetent cronies. Certainly the question of what they've been doing for the last four years will gain more currency.

Which leads me to believe that this is another politically motivated release of information, designed to scare the public without risking any blowback.

[shaolinmonkey]

11. Ah, Orrin Hatch.

Asshat.

[bullimiami]

4. ummm.. the sky is falling.

THE SKY IS FALLING!

[Just Me]

6. Trickle-down IQ thanks to Rummy & the neoCONs.

Nothing is as it appears, anymore.

This could be foreshadowing, fear-mongering or poll-pushing.

:shrug:

[smoogatz]

7. Every time there's a new series of terror warnings

Bush's personal numbers go up. When HIS numbers go up, so do the numbers for his various agenda items, like Social Security. His Social Security plan currently gets lousy numbers, causing even Republican congressmen to run away. Hence the new Terror warnings. They'll keep turning up the terror knob 'til they get Social Security piratized.

[mattclearing]

8. I declare Bushit.

Must be a slow news day.

Interesting to see that Al Zarqawi is branching out into the "Homeland." Fat chance. Let's just say I won't be hiding under my bed over this one.

Amazing that we can intercept terrorists' communications and yet continue to have no idea where either of these two are.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Did the geniuses at CIA know that OBL's "homland" is Saudi Arabia?

And, as a Muslim, Zarqawi would likely consider Saudi Arabia his "homeland" also.

What a bunch of bumbling clods they are.

[Discord]

12. looks like a lie to me.

They are losing valuable poll numbers (the real ones they are privy to, not the watered down ones we hear about). The support for the war dwindles more and more every day. And still lacking any connection of Iraq to the terrorist bombings on 9/11. They needed to manufacture an unprovable connection source to bolster the propaganda that there actually is some connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden. The "intercepted communication" premise insures that it cannot be fully investigated.