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FBI Urges Vigilance With 9/11 Anniversary in Sight

August 06, 2007 5:04 PM

Fbiurgesvigil_mn A new FBI alert warns law enforcement agencies to remain vigilant for any "suspicious pre-operational" activity this summer, but noted that while the upcoming sixth anniversary of Sept. 11 might be an occasion for al Qaeda propaganda, fundamentalist terrorists have shown no tendency to use anniversary dates as the rationale for attacks.

"The anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks serves as a focal point for propaganda, but al-Qa'ida previously has not timed its operations to specific dates. However, al-Qa'ida has waited until attack preparations are complete," the bulletin released Friday said.

The bulletin also knocked down recent published reports of a possible suicide bomb attack on the White House this summer.

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"According to an uncorroborated report, al-Qa'ida was contemplating attacking the White House and a U.S. Senate building with two suicide operatives before 11 September 2007. DHS and the FBI have no further information on this threat and doubt the credibility of the reporting," the bulletin read.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security said the bulletin was issued "to re-emphasize the desire by terrorists to attack the United States." 

The Joint Homeland Security Assessment was careful to state that neither agency had any credible information regarding a specific threat on any target inside U.S. borders. 

But, the report noted, "Recent attacks in Britain and an Internet slideshow from al-Qa'ida's propaganda arm promising future attacks highlight the need for law enforcement to remain vigilant for suspicious, possible pre-operational activity."

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August 6, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (11)

User Comments

someone needs to get fired and now

I really thnk that someone needs to be acocuntable for the 19. billion missing weapons in Iraq that our enemies are using against our troops now how could the dept of defense let this happen they should all be charged and fired an be accountable for there horrible mistakes and they should be used as punching bags for that stupidity mistakes they have made the biggest in history? Well something needs to get done and they should be all fireed now on this issue will you follow up on this and make sure everone is accountable for this and charges against all them poor managment?

If I worked for the federal gov this would not happen. Are they hiring only incompetant individuals who made the biggest mistakes in history? Put this in our history books too.

Posted by: Gloria | Aug 6, 2007 11:57:58 PM

"Urging vigilance", eh? Haven't they been doing JUST THAT since 9/11? What makes this any different?

Stop using these scare tactics! The American public, contrary to popular belief, is relatively intelligent and can look out for ourselves.

Posted by: Doug | Aug 7, 2007 8:27:00 AM

With two wide open borders and two possible terrorists locked up in SC that the national media has ignored, I wouldn't say anyone is being very vigilant.

Posted by: Cindi | Aug 7, 2007 11:10:46 PM

Cindi, come ride a New York City subway, and you'll see vigilance...

Posted by: Jazz | Aug 8, 2007 11:35:07 AM

You have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! What ARE WE GOING TO WATCH OUT FOR George Bush flying a 747 loaded with bombs. Or CHEYNE
going into a bunker UNDERNEATH the SUBWAY IN NEW YORK SO he CAN DIRECT ANOTHER 911 on his OWN PEOPLE.

Get REAL OUR US GOVERNMENT DID 911 to US and PAID OSAMA BIN LADEN to take the BLAME. Why do YOU THINK THE MOST POWERFUL nation on the PLANET CAN'T FIND HIM! Wake UP AMERICA WE HAVE BEEN DUPED BY THE US GOVERNMENT!

NOT ONLY DID THEY DO 911 TO US FOR POWER/CONTROL and GREED. They did the FOLLOWING TO us!

1. CIA KILLED JFK because HE WOULDN'T do A 911 the HIS OWN COUNTRY IN THE 1960'S DURING THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS.

2. THE GOVERNMENT KILLED ABE LINCOLN BECAUSE HE freed SLAVES and ENDED the civil war. WE THE PEOPLE RELected him and 5 DAYS LATER the US GOVERNMENT KILLED HIM.

3. The US WANTED TO TEST a NUCLEAR DEVICE on A CITY WITH MILLIONS OF people so theY attacked PEARL HARBOR BLAMING IT on the Japanense so THEY COULD NUKE Hiroshima and Nagaski. 2400 died in Pearl Harbor 240,000 died IN HIROSHIMA AND Nagisaki.

4. The US GOVERNMENT CAUSED the TSNUMAI IN 2004 THAT killed 300,000 PEOPLE.

5. The US GOVERNMENT CAUSED Katrina that you well know DESTROY NEW ORLEANS!

6. Right NOW THE US GOVERNMENT IS trying to cause thousands of EARTHQUAKES IN THE RING OF FIRE ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Posted by: DouglasBickford | Aug 9, 2007 11:03:41 AM

How in the world can a government cause natural disasters, did they put something underneath the plates in the earth at the bottom of the ocean and make a hurricane or Tsunami ? Get real. The other things u mentioned are theories. There's no answer for those, but natural disasters are just that.. Natural Disasters.

Posted by: T | Aug 15, 2007 9:42:08 AM

You people are freaking crazy. Have you no intelligence at all? Get out of the United States if that is what you think. You don't deserve to live in our country with that attitude. Go somewhere else if you think there is a better place. We certainly don't need the terrorists when we have people like you all living here. You are more dangerous than them.

Posted by: Carol Harrison | Aug 15, 2007 11:44:39 AM

I believe that DouglasBickford was being incredibly sarcastic in his post above; even if he wasn't, why get all bent out of shape because he believes what he does?

Posted by: Me Think You Stink | Aug 15, 2007 4:50:39 PM

if we do get nuked it's our own fault.i mean come on it's been seven years since 911 and we can't find osoma bin ladden.now thats crazy.

Posted by: tony | Aug 19, 2007 3:43:10 AM

Surely none of the bereaved families still believe that ludicrous conspiracy theory about incompetent arab flight-school dropouts on first solo flights across totally-controlled airspace....let alone scoring a bulls-eye on the most heavily-defended military establishment in the world?

Unless the conspiratorial Big Business Media stops repeating the Official Lie, and starts revealing the truth they've always known, this 9/11 tragedy can never be decently commemorated. The terrorists will then continue to control homeland security from power bases within these shores, even as they blindly squander young American lives in endless military campaigns abroad.

Perish the thought, but if we allow the Perpetraitors to scam the world order with another 9-11 we will all become victims yet again.

Posted by: Mike Rose | Sep 4, 2007 10:56:39 PM

I wonder if for the seventh anniversary the government is finally going to tell us how gigantic skyscrapers can "collapse" at freefall rate (as the 9/11 whitewash commission and the N.I.S.T. both admitted) when anyone with common sense can figure out that the uppermost part of a building is not going to be able to "fall" into and THROUGH the remaining solid majority of said building at anything remotely resembling the rate of solid objects falling through air (barring the use of explosives i.e. a controlled demolition). Solids just cannot otherwise pass through other solids like that without something (explosives) rendering the remaining majority to such a non-resisting state. Think we'll finally get an actual explanation? Maybe? Nah, most Americans are far too dumb and detached and mentally castrated to even consider something like that anyway.

Posted by: Lev | Sep 7, 2008 1:17:35 PM

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