Booga booga booga! Attack on NYC "imminent"!!!

[Bluebear]

N E W Y O R K, July 31, 2004 — ABC News has learned that federal and New York City officials have received credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city.

Sources at several law enforcement agencies tell ABC News that an "overseas source" has provided the information about the threat to New York and that it is more significant than the usual "chatter" intercepted from likely terrorists that has prompted warnings in the past.

Officials from dozens of local and federal agencies met into the night Friday and again this morning.

"Intelligence reporting indicates that al Qaeda continues to target for attack commercial and financial institutions, as well as international organizations, inside the United States," the New York City Police Department said in a statement released today on the "ongoing al Qaeda threat."

"The NYPD recommends that corporate and institutional security directors review their protection of HVAC systems, parking installations, and security in general," the statement added. "The alert level for New York City remains unchanged at 'orange' or 'high.'"

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/new_york_city_terror_threat_040731-1.html

[Bluebear]

1. Is this on NYC news, Big Applites?

[Miss Authoritiva]

2. Okay -- I admit it. I don't know what this means:

Just what is "credible intelligence" in war-on-terror speak? And using the same criteria, did we have "credible intelligence" in the days and weeks preceding the 9/11 attacks? Oh, and are they changing the code from yellow to orange (I have to coordinate my wardrobe).

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I wonder which corporations are being targeted?

And if anyone will stay home from work just in case?

[Bluebear]

4. More, on the timing..........

As to the timing of any planned attack, sources say it could take place between now and Election Day in November.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. The 'terror attack'...

...will be 'thwarted' by information extracted by torture and arrests made possible by part of the Patriot Act, thus justifying Abu Ghraib and the shredding of the Constitution in one fell swoop.

[kentuck]

6. Is it bad enough for them to cancel the Republican Convention ??

Well, I guess it's not bad enough to cancel the elections then?? i don't know if I should throw gasoline on this fire just to scare the hell out of the Repubs and, who knows, it may be true this time? WOLF! cried the little boy.
Maybe we scare them enough to fuck up their convention?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. maybe they want to move it out of nyc

to say, maybe, houston.

[Bluebear]

8. Bingo

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Hope they do

Close enough for me to protest. :bounce:

[Bluebear]

10. You know Rove is kicking himself for picking NYC

He wanted to capitalize on 9/11 and it bit his fat ass.

[shraby]

11. Maybe they want to scare protesters

away from the convention.

[Cleita]

12. ...

:thumbsup:

[Bluebear]

14. Is there any doubt?

I remember your words last night and they ring true!

[doni_georgia]

13. If a terror threat was truly imminentm, and they didn't change the color

to at least red, it would be the greatest incompetence we have seen yet. They know this. This is orchestrated bullshit. Let's see, Zogby poll comes out showing Bush losing ground in every category. Democratic convention ends with the usually divisive Dems united unlike ever before, Kerry is gaining ground among Republicans . . . Remember on the 6th when Kerry announced Edwards as the running mate - two days later there was news of a new threat, but the color didn't change. This is their standard MO. I am so sick of it I could scream. Every time Kerry starts getting too much positive press there's a new terror threat. Terrorism is the act of instilling terror in the masses. Just what this administration been doing since 9/11.