Local FBI Head: al Qaeda 'Expressed Interest' in Pittsburgh

[maddezmom]

Pittsburgh (KDKA) With federal officials warning that al Qaeda might be planning attacks on the US in the upcoming months, the local head of the FBI warns that Pittsburgh is not as immune as many residents might think.

Reacting to news that suspected terrorists might be in the country planning more attacks, most Pittsburghers told KDKA that they're not too concerned with an attack. "They'll probably target New York City and I think the more major cities," said one woman, "and I don't think Pittsburgh would be a target."


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"These people have to be someplace -- why not Pittsburgh? They could be here." McCabe adds, "We have facilities, targets that they may be looking at or have looked at in the past."

"I can't go into why," McCabe added, "but we do have intelligence -- and we know that al Qaeda has been interested in the Pittsburgh general area... This is one of many areas that we are aware that al Qaeda has expressed some interest in."

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More: http://kdka.com/local/local_story_149144847.html

So does the FBI have specifics or he this agent trying to scare the folks of Pittsburgh? :shrug:

[Eurobabe]

1. oh great, I just get one kid graduated and out of DC

and now the other one is in school at UPitt. What's a mom to do?

[MikeG]

2. They hate us for our pierogies.

[livetohike]

5. LOL

MikeG. Good one!

[VolcanoJen]

10. lmfao, MikeG!!

And your Green Weenies!!!!

:+ :+ :+

[Dulcinea]

13. And Iron City...and IC Light!

eom

[Richardo]

16. Pretty funny 'nat, MikeG

HA! :D

[Paradise]

19. you ARE a p*sser! :) lol! :) n/t

[tlcandie]

3. So, is it worse to tell the people or just ALLUDE to something awful?

I think this is totally outrageous to say, "Well, we have info, we just can't tell you what it is!"

Either come out with it or shut the hell up!

[ithacan]

4. They really like those potential swing states don't they?

You'd almost think that Al Qaeda is helping Bush, that it WANTS Bush to win the election...

[MikeG]

6. An airliner would just bounce off the US Steel Tower.

Its so solid, you can't use a cell phone in it.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

7. We would spot them in a heart-beat

after all, just about everybody that lives here is from here...

And if they were from the outside, we could spot them by their aversion to chipped-ham...or pop...or gumbands or something...

[maddezmom]

9. don't forget adversion to scrapple

but then it would include me, too. ;)

[RamboLiberal]

15. I think scrapple is more from Amish Country

mid-state. But we'd know them from their aversion to all the above plus Jumbo, Heinz ketchup, Iron City Beer, mullets, and not saying Yunz and Yunzes.

[geek tragedy]

8. AQ are actually

Browns fans. Who knew?

Word has it that the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce is just glad that *someone* is actually interested in Pittsburgh.

[icymist]

17. Hey! I'm a Browns fan! I grew up outside of Youngstown!

Good one there geek tradedy about the Chamber of Commerce! LOL.

[pinto]

11. this is either a "cut and paste" piece from this station (McCabe's remarks

are neither dated nor ascribed to current situation, whatever the hell it is...) or outright fear mongering. The web page is an eyeopener.....

[pinto]

12. addendum: great posts and 'tudes, PA'ers......here's to U..n/t

[Don_G]

14. Osama Expressed An Interest In Smarty Jones Too

That dosen't make him guilty of landing a 747 on the Kentucky Derby.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

18. I just started a job in DAHNTAHN Pittsburgh

Oh no!!! I'll be sure to cover the entire building in duct tape and plastic sheeting. I can run across the 9th Street Bridge should hijacked planes strike the USX Tower.

[davidinalameda]

20. just make sure its after Thanksgiving

I'm going back east for the WVU/Pitt game

Go Eers!

[stickdog]

21. Funny that no fighter planes were sent to intercept Flight 93 as it flew

right past Pittsburgh then, isn't it?

[Torgo]

22. Slow news day at KDKA...

Must have run out of downed trees and mudslide stories.

[PittPoliSci]

30. isn't that the truth...

:eyes:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

23. "Expressed interest"?? Did they request info from the Pittsburgh...

...Chamber of Commerce?

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

24. We should all probably evacuate

to Cranberry or something. Wait, somebody already took that one!

[burrowowl]

25. What's in Pittsburg?

The Liberty Bell is in Philly

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

26. People who can spell?

[burrowowl]

27. LOL

AQ would be sensitive to the silent 'H' and vocalize it.

[RetroLounge]

28. Well, I suppose someone has to...

:)

RL

[WhiteTara]

29. Isn't this where Teresa Heinz-Kerry is creating a model city?

It's interesting that Pittsburg would be the city. Teresa Kerry is a very strong environmentalist and is doing some good work there. Remember when the Anthrax attacks happened in the Senate, only top Democrats were hit, so it makes sense that the city she cares about would be the target.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

31. Creating a model city?

That's a stretch...she is in charge of the Heinz foundation, which helps to fund the Heinz House ( a place for underprivileged children to go, much akin to a YMCA) and is active in the arts through the the foudation...

That is it...No political involvement whatsoever...

[sandnsea]

32. She's done more than that

"...the first convention center to be certified as a green building by the U.S. Green Building Council."

"Once one of the country's most polluted cities, Pittsburgh has become one of the most active centers for environmentally sound design and construction--such as the Heinz Family Foundation offices and PNC's Firstside Center."

"Pittsburgh's philanthropic and arts communities, especially through the leadership of Teresa Heinz at The Heinz Endowments, advocated for a building that would set a new standard for civic design--a functional building integrated with the neighboring Cultural District, in harmony with the natural setting, and ecologically prominent."

"To support the greening process, The Heinz Endowments awarded a four-year grant to the Green Building Alliance in 1998 and later made a $3 million, project-related investment to the SEA to support the upfront cost of key green technologies."
http://www.pittsburghpowersup.com/pressroom/backgrounder.html
http://www.gbapgh.org/ShadesOfGreenAwardHeinz.htm

"The Pennsylvania HOPE Strategy is our contribution to the effort to create a comprehensive, affordable prescription drug program for the senior citizens of Pennsylvania. It is a project of the Heinz Family Philanthropies."
http://www.hfp.heinz.org/programs/hope.html

"Teresa Heinz and Steven Spielberg today announced a major collaboration that will make Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh one of the nation's principal research sites for a program to deliver entertainment and communications services to seriously ill children."
http://www.starbright.org/press/heinz.html

Funds HealthWeek on PBS, not Pittsburgh, but still. She does ALOT.
http://www.pbs.org/healthweek/hwfront.htm

[shawn703]

33. What about Phoenix, Little Rock, Miami, Des Moines, Portland, Detroit,

Minneapolis, St. Louis, Manchester, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Cincinatti, the other Portland, Nashville, Seattle, Charleston or Milwaukee?

Come on now - Pennsylvania isn't the only "battleground state" in this election that needs to be kept in line.

(Which would explain why NYC and DC aren't threatened - they're solidly Democratic)