NBC shoots down ABC's Big Terror Story - No Big Deal

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16757401/

U.S. military and counterterrorism officials have told NBC News that a recent U.S. raid on an al-Qaida safehouse in Iraq uncovered unspecific plans to conduct terrorist attacks outside Iraq — including the United States.

Officials, however, told NBC that the plans were "pretty much generic," a "wish list" and something that "frankly, we've seen ... before."

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All the officials contacted by NBC News said that none of the documents contained any specific threats, targets, plans or timetables — but according to one official, they did demonstrate al-Qaida's "intent" to attack the United States.

One official said that, "given the current political climate , if this were something imminent or new, the administration would have been raising terror threat levels and pushing this information out to the media."

Officials said that all fixtures of the U.S. chain of command, including the White House, were aware of this information.

ABC's Big Terra Terra Terra Story

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2813235&page=1

Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States to orchestrate a new attack on American soil.

Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently testified that documents captured by coalition forces during a raid of a safe house believed to house Iraqi members of al Qaeda six months ago "revealed was planning terrorist operations in the U.S."

At the time, Maples offered little additional insight into the possible terror plot. ABC News, however, has learned new details of what remains a classified incident that has been dealt with at the highest levels of government.

Sources tell ABC News that the plot may have involved moving between 10 and 20 suspects believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq into the United States with student visas — the same method used by the 19 al Qaeda terrorists who struck American targets on Sept. 11.

Hope KO covers this one!

[cynatnite]

1. ...

:rofl: No surprise there.

[lancdem]

7. Nope

[BuyingThyme]

2. This was "BREAKING" news on CNN just three minutes ago.

(Not the correction, but the terra terra story.)

[aquart]

6. SOU PR.

[JuniperLea]

3. We have to fight 'em over there so we can still fight 'em over here apparently... n/t

[Jack from Charlotte]

4. A hunch: The AWOL/moron uses this "threat" in the SOTU speech. (nfm)

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[BuyingThyme]

5. Oh, wow! You nailed it.

[AlCzervik]

8. of course and then hopefully some networks will have a "Fact check" segment

on his speech.

[RC]

9. I put more stock in our terror attack on Iran.