Bin Laden's 'wish list' has Chicago authorities on alert.

[elleng]

Law enforcement agencies in the Chicago area are on high alert after U.S. intelligence analysts discovered Chicago on the list of possible targets for an al-Qaida attack on the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11.

The raid on bin Laden's compound produced an intelligence mother lode. . .

Those plans included derailing of mass transit trains by obstructing the tracks. On the target list: New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Chicago.

"With all due respect, why would he target Peoria? Nobody would pay much attention to Peoria," said DePaul University professor M. Cherif Bassiouni. "On the other hand, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, these are major cities."

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=8117003

[dkf]

1. Our guys did good. Obama included.

[kestrel91316]

2. He's gonna target mass transit trains in Lost Angeles??

Oh, gosh, THAT will kill a whole lot of people. NOT. Metro keeps raising fares and cutting service. Pretty soon there won't be a damned soul riding them.

[underpants]

4. I know that LA has trains

because I saw "White Men Can't Jump" .....other than that I am more aware of the paved mostly empty water system from the movies where apparently it is a lawless and uncontrolled land left to high speed chases and gun battles.

:eyes:

[underpants]

3. OOH! it a can of snakes!!!

Bullshit.

This is nothing new to the pros. The pattern and the obvious MO is to be able to move and operate in large cities.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Maybe he wanted to see if terrorism would "play in Peoria"...?

:evilgrin:

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. My wife is from Peoria

Or, as she likes to put it, "I am from Peoria." She left 20 years ago and never looked back.