| Submit your comments on this article |
| Britain |
| US Warned of Glasgow Threat Two Weeks Ago |
| 2007-07-01 |
| U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against "airport infrastructure or aircraft," a senior US law enforcement officials tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com. The intelligence reports also warned that airports and aircraft in the Czech Republic could be the targets of al Qaeda-connected terrorists. The warnings were kept secret for operational reasons, according to officials. In public, the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have continued to maintain they know of no specific or credible threats involving the United States, even though the intelligence reports specify US aircraft as possible targets. A US official told ABCNews.com that the intelligence reports led to the assignment of Federal Air Marshals to flights into and out of both Glasgow and Prague. Air marshals had been added to flights into and out of Germany late last month, based on similar warnings. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #2 A US official told ABCNews.com that the intelligence reports led to the assignment of Federal Air Marshals to flights into and out of both Glasgow and Prague. Air marshals had been added to flights into and out of Germany late last month, based on similar warnings. Prague and Germany, too? I'm awfully glad Mr. Wife is back from his last round of peregrinations, and not due to go out again for a while. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-01 13:39 |
| #1 Can't keep this info secret that we saw it coming and managed to warn them, gotta give it away! Anyway, now that it's out there, I wonder if the Patriot Act had anything to do with it? And if it will be given any credit. And if it did have anything to do with it, if the idealists would not have acted on the information because it was obtained "immorally". |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-07-01 02:33 |