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Severe (Red) The threat level has been raised to Severe only once, which applied only to flights coming from the United Kingdom:
* August 10–14, 2006, in response to British law enforcement announcing it had disrupted a major terror plot to blow up an aircraft, DHS raised the threat level for commercial flights from the United Kingdom to the United States to Severe.
High (Orange) On a nationwide level, it has been raised to High five times:
* September 10–24, 2002, the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* February 7–27, 2003, near the end of the Muslim religious holiday Hajj. Intelligence reports suggested the possibility of terrorist attacks against "apartment buildings, hotels, and other soft or lightly secured targets."
* March 17 – April 16, 2003, around the beginning of U.S. and Coalition military action in Iraq.
* May 20–30, 2003, after the Riyadh compound bombings and the Casablanca bombings. According to Tom Ridge: "The U.S. Intelligence Community believes that Al Qaeda has entered an operational period worldwide, and this may include terrorist attacks in the United States."
* December 21, 2003 – January 9, 2004, citing intelligence information suggesting large-scale attacks around the holiday season.[20] In addition, the alert has been raised to High on a select or partial basis three times: * August 1 – November 10, 2004, for specific financial institutions in northern New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C., citing intelligence pointing to the possibility of a car or truck bomb attack, naming specific buildings as possible targets.
* July 7, 2005 – August 12, 2005, for mass transit systems only. The DHS secretary announced the level after the 7 July 2005 London bombings despite the absence of "specific, credible information suggesting imminent attack" in the United States.
* August 10, 2006 – present, for all domestic airline flights and all international flights to or from the United States, with the exception of flights from the United Kingdom to the United States. Flights from the United Kingdom to the United States had been under a Severe alert, but were downgraded to High on August 13, 2006. For more details on this topic, see 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot.
Elevated (Yellow)
* March 12 – September 10, 2002
* September 25, 2002 – February 6, 2003
* February 28 – March 16, 2003
* April 17 – May 20, 2003
* May 31, 2003 – August 1, 2004
* November 10, 2004 – July 8, 2005
* August 12, 2005 – present (excluding domestic and international flights)
Low (Green) and Guarded (Blue) The threat level has never been lowered to Low (Green) or Guarded (Blue). It was recommended in a Sept. 2009 Task Force report to remove Low and Guarded conditions from the Alert System altogether and set Yellow (Elevated) to "Guarded" as the new baseline of the system, without changing the baseline conditions issued when under Yellow in the current system. So far, the change has not taken place.
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
A false flag or true?
Is Al Qaeda stll strong enough when it wasn't even that strong to begin with?
A false flag during the holiday season however, ruining everyone's holidays and festive spirits would really create alot of noise.
I hope that there will be no attack of ANY form whether real or not and hope everyone will enjoy their holidays with family and in safety with no threats whatsoever.
Happy Soon-To-Come Holidays all
Happy And Safe December All!
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(visit the link for the full news article)edit on 15-12-2010 by ModernAcademia because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by David_Reale
Oooh, I'm so scared.
The last time you retarded terrorists tried to go to "war" against the West, (Stockholm) your "chosen one" blew a huge chunk of his own stomach sky-high, and gave a couple of chicks ringing ears. Other than that, nada. So forgive me if I don't piss my pants. Let's face it. You guys are running out of luck. Because skill never was a factor in your cases.
Originally posted by David_Reale
reply to post by oozyism
Yea, true that, unfortunately. But even in that field, we're kicking their asses big-time. Add to that the fact they are losing the hearts and minds of their muslim brothers and sisters, and it's only a matter of time before Al-Qaeda is passed on as a side-note for the history books.
Originally posted by David_Reale
reply to post by oozyism
But the Taliban are not Al-Qaeda, they're the taliban.
Anyway, I don't take people who have to blow themselves up to feel powerful, very seriously.
They're probaby a bunch of insecure, impotent ingrates.