Terror Alert Level: Details on current plots - Scary, page 1

www.azcentral.com...://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1222terrortargets-ON.html

Much of the recent intelligence makes broad references to large urban areas, including New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, while other pieces of intelligence cite such obscure locales as Rappahannock, a county in Virginia, and Valdez, Alaska, where tankers load oil from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, according to several senior U.S. officials.

But the FBI, the CIA and other authorities have also picked up troubling intelligence about other plots, and efforts to blow up chemical and hazardous materials facilities, nuclear power plants, dams, power grids, ports and airports.

Of particular concern, he said, are vague references to upcoming attacks on "major metropolitan areas and events that we're looking at ... bowl games, New Year's events, that kind of thing."

"I have never seen the national security leadership as tense and anxious as they are right now," said a second senior federal law enforcement official. He said even the timing of the elevation of the threat level was moved up a day because of rapidly developing concerns over the weekend. Bush administration officials were so concerned, he said, that they sent a plane to Missouri on Saturday to bring Attorney General John Ashcroft back to Washington from vacation.

Let me add a few more things.....

Foxnews Article.....www.foxnews.com...

Bush says -
Our government is doing everything we can to protect our country," Bush said. "American citizens need to go about their lives, but as they do so, they need to know that governments at all levels are working as hard as we possibly can to protect the American citizens."

Sounds like something already happened. Not a re-assuring tone by our president.



Another major factor in the decision was the holiday season, when more people are distracted and traveling and large numbers of people gather at events ranging from football bowl games to massive New Year's celebrations (search) in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and elsewhere.

This just correlates what the AZ article stated. Just showing more than 1 source.


I wasnt very happy watching Patriot batteries being put in place around Washington again either. They really need to try and keep some of this stuff under public eye to relax fears. On the other hand, I think this threat is so real that they really want to show the American people that they have tried the hardest to stop an invisible enemy.

You know what scares me more then the terrorist attacks no matter who is behind them the result is the same.
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Personally I just hope it will be used as an excuse for the low holiday sales.

[Edited on 23-12-2003 by DiRtYDeViL]

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One senior Pentagon official described the terrorism threat level as "true orange," noting that some previous orange designations had been viewed with skepticism.
There are particular concerns about Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nevada, a handful of other cities and two rural areas -- one in the East and one in the Southwest, officials said.

And this is interesting!! From the same article:

On Tuesday, the Pentagon will conduct a continuity-of-government exercise as part of the orange alert, officials said.
Key officials will be told to move to secret alternative facilities. It was not clear how many people would be involved or whether they would move by helicopter or motor vehicle.

-B.

[Edited on 23-12-2003 by Banshee]

Originally posted by ausconspiracies

"wasnt something similar planned for the morning of september 11th??

I think you're right. Aussie. I think you're right.......there were excercises in the Wash. D.C. area that day, from news reports in the past.

"As two hijacked jetliners bore down on New York City's World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, two Air Force F-16 jet fighters were practicing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near Atlantic City.

The F-16 pilots had no idea of the impending tragedy in Manhattan, just eight minutes away in their supersonic jets.

Why? Why weren't they alerted? And even if they had been told about the hijackings, what could they have done?

The jets weren't armed to shoot down another plane. Their mission was bombing drills. Why?"


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