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Home Front: WoT
Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned
2007-07-02
Don't tell no one, it's a secret. Sheesh.
A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
For when traditional fireworks just aren't enough.
"This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," the official told ABCNews.com.

U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the United States did not have "have any specific credible evidence that there's an attack focused on the United States at this point."

Unlike the United States, officials in Germany have publicly warned that the country could face a major attack this summer, also comparing the situation to the pre-9/11 summer of 2001.
Posted by:Steve White

#13  Aug 12 will be the anniversary of the collapse of the 1350 year run of Caliphates. They probably wouldn't do anything on that day, but 7-7-7 would have even greater symbolic value than 9-11. The Gas-Bomb jihad should at long last prove that the West in NOT on top of the mosque based terror within our midst, and Muslims believe - with good cause - that they operate under extreme indulgence. I am as worried as Charles Johnson - littlegreenfootballs - that Muslims took the wrong message from both the President's Islamic Center speech, and his deference to the OIC.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-07-02 20:47  

#12  I expect the leftos to start squaking about this being nothing more than an attepmt to gain public attention and support for the 'obviusly' failing WOT. When will Harry and Nancy chirp in???
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-07-02 13:23  

#11  Sheez, can't this wait. According to the New York Times Sunday mag, the world is going to end 2012 anyway. And the damn Mayans were no threat to anyone. Go figure.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-07-02 11:24  

#10  I say we send Joe aid in the form of a new caps lock key. His broke apparently.

Al-Qaeda NEEDS a hit on the west if they are to maintain any sort of respectability in the Islamic world. Especially since the planned fireworks in England really didn't do much. Except prove that Islamic doctors really suck at bomb making.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-07-02 09:45  

#9  I'd keep an eye on Palpatine.
Posted by: doc   2007-07-02 09:18  

#8  Hey Joe, welcome back.

p.s. Where the caps?
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-07-02 09:12  

#7  Maybe it's the utter eradication of Mecca (not the bingo) and Medina (not the wine)
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2007-07-02 08:43  

#6  It's too bad we can't "profile" any suspects, or "wire tap" any of their phones, maybe we could avert such a thing.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-07-02 08:33  

#5  Interesting leak. I wonder if this was officially chosen as the means to disseminate the information in order to get broader coverage. A straight forward press release would have been ignored by the MSM. But the chance to hound administration officials to concede the deleterious information uncovered by our media sleuths could stay in the news cycle for a week.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-07-02 08:03  

#4  If the Islamofascists feel they are near destruction in Iraq & Afghanistan they will be in a situation which DEMANDS they mount a 'spectacular' attack against the US (or an ally) in order to maintain credibility, funding and recruiting.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-07-02 07:20  

#3  Wow, who would have ever thought that muslim terrorists are planning another 9/11.
Posted by: anymouse   2007-07-02 06:28  

#2  A "great power" or superpower confrontation, including Amer Hiroshimas, is steadily becoming Moud and Radical Islam's best option, both agz regionally-globally entrenching Dubya-USA, and unreliable anti-Western Westies = Lefty politicos more concerned now about preserving personal power than friend Moud or "Globalism", etc. To stop the USA from entrenching, let alone to get out of the ME, the Radics need to start using their Nuclear War = Nuclear-WMD Terror, etal. cards.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-07-02 00:43  

#1  Gotta love the MSM definition of secret.
Posted by: Mike N.    2007-07-02 00:09  

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