Coming soon?
Or are these just more empty threats? From AP:
Terrorists might try to bomb buses and rail lines in major U.S. cities this summer, according to a government bulletin issued to law enforcement officials nationwide.The FBI and Homeland Security Department sent a bulletin Thursday night saying terrorists could attempt to conceal explosives in luggage and carry-on bags, such as duffel bags and backpacks.
The bulletin cites uncorroborated intelligence as indicating that such bombs could be made of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel, similar to what was used to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building in April 1995.
A senior federal law enforcement official, speaking Friday on condition of anonymity, said recent intelligence, coupled with the deadly March 11 commuter train bombings in Madrid, has increased the level of concern about a potential attack in the United States.
The bulletin did not specify a particular city that might be targeted.
Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups have "demonstrated the intent and capability" to attack public transportation with a variety of bombs, including suicide bombers, the bulletin says. Such attacks have occurred in Israel, Greece, Turkey, Spain and elsewhere.
In Spain on Friday, police found a bomb connected to a detonator with a 450-foot cable under the tracks of a high-speed train railway between Madrid and Seville. Bomb disposal exports disarmed the device and no train was in the vicinity when it was discovered, Spanish officials said.
The U.S. bulletin says that a "viable" explosive constructed of ammonium nitrate and diesel "could be concealed in standard luggage."
British authorities earlier this week arrested eight people on suspicion of being involved in a possible terrorist plot that included the discovery of 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate.
The warning follows by one day an FBI bulletin to state and local law enforcement agencies raising concern that terrorists might try to use cultural, artistic or athletic visas to slip into the United States undetected.
The new bulletin lists a number of suggestions for city transportation systems to enhance security. These include close monitoring of parking lots, removal of trash receptacles, limiting access points, improving lighting and beefing up overall law enforcement presence.
Barriers should be deployed at key points to prevent terrorists from parking a bomb-laden vehicle, possibly disguised as a delivery truck, close to entrances and exits.
"Question drivers and direct them to move immediately," the bulletin says.
In addition, the bulletin recommends passenger screening steps such as random security sweeps, positive matches of bags and cargo to passengers, and reminding passengers to immediately report any unattended bags or suspicious behavior.
Are the muslims not afraid that we would drown them in their own blood? The individual nutball might say ¨I love death more than life¨ but what about others in their communites???
I for one would not rest until every stinking jihadi in the UK was liquidated ( i include all muslims as all muslims are required to make jihad - therefore they all would be liquidated)....if someone I care about was killed due to islam.......
Over at Islam-Online they have "on-line Fatwas". One of them is on the US elections. The great and piece-ful Allah says:
"It is our priority to unseat Bush and his party, for no other reason than the fact that he led America on a war based on false premises, and he took away the basic freedoms and rights of Americans, including Muslims. So Muslims muust vote to unseat him."
So, this increases my expectation that something very nasty WILL occur as the Bush Admin strengthens (economic news). Nasty enough that people will be angry that it was "allowed to happen" and soon enough that the stewing on the topic will be in full-force as people go to the polls.
It is most likely that they will try to use one of these tourist chartered coach buses. ~ Most people don't use either buses or trains for general commuting, not outsideof New York. ~ They could use a chartered bus in D.C. or New York.
They use trains for commuting in Boston too.
Thethethey uuuse trains in Chicago, too.
"We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old." Winston Churchill, Speech before Commons,
June 4, 1940. Good words then, good words now. You get the idea.
"We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be"
So how many Nazis were already in the UK when war was declared on Germany? As many as Muslims in the USA today?
Max. good question. I don't know. I do know that there were large numbers of German bunds here in the States prior to the start of the war that idolized Hitler. I imagine England had some too, and there are always fifth columnists to worry about.
Max: thats hysterical: "on-line Fatwas"..."It is our priority to unseat Bush and his party, for no other reason than the fact that he led America on a war based on false premises, and he took away the basic freedoms and rights of Americans, including Muslims. So Muslims muust vote to unseat him."
They care about our basic RIGHTS and FREEDOMS? How about a right to life? Muslim rights and freedoms violated by Bush 1/1000000000000 of 1% of what the Salafists take away.
I was in New York City the week after 9-11. The number of shady looking people with duffle bags on the subways unnerved me then. Then there are these wacko types ranting and raving and cussing themselves out.( Yes some with five foot stuffed duffle bags.) A suicidal jihadist would fit right in with that crowd and NOT look the lest bit suspicious! The specter raised in this article comes as no surprise.
The "On-Line Fatwas" are here:
http://www.islamonline.net/livefatwa/english/Browse.asp?hGuestID=L552UQ
Ctrl-F and search for the word unseat. The author starts off subtle about pushing Bush out of power, then at the end is clearly advocating it.
Of course they will try something. At that moment, there will a backlash of incredible ferocity. Americans will see it for what it is, an attempt to interfere with elections in the homeland. 9/11 temporarily scared and confused us. Now, we are digging in our heels at the grass roots level. All over America ordinary people are resolved to take the necessary action NOT to be intimindated.
oops. I mean '"intimidated," not "intimindated," which is a misspelling and sounds like a dhimmi which I am not, nor will I ever be!!!