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Pillow bombs feared on planes
Oct. 14 — Airport screeners in this country and overseas are on the lookout for suspicious pillows, coats and even stuffed animals after U.S. intelligence concluded that al Qaeda operatives are being trained to apply special chemicals to the material inside to transform them into bombs.
JCT777 wrote:GD - Let me know when you are going to the next "Smack the cr@p outta some terrorists" festival. I will definitely be there to lend a hand, or two.
U.S. Issues New Warning on Terror Attacks
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are warning that terrorists may be poised for attacks in the United States, according to a bulletin released Friday and obtained by Fox News.
...The exact timing, targets and locations of the possible attacks are unknown. Some reports indicate that a large attack could follow a series of smaller operations in the Middle East and South Asia.
The bulletin also states that al Qaeda continues to develop plans for using aircraft against targets in the U.S.
In a recent interview with The Associated Pres, a top intelligence official suggested that al Qaeda was planning another big attack.
"We have received a lot of good information from these detainees over the past several weeks and corroborated the fact there were active plans, ongoing, to conduct another attack in the United States," William H. Parrish, a top intelligence official with the Homeland Security Department (search), told the AP.
"This attack as they indicated was probably going to be multiple attacks, simultaneous," he said....
..."Al Qaeda has always been focused and committed to the spectacular attacks," Parrish said. "The individual suicide bomber, although certainly within (bin Laden's) grasp to be able to execute, may not fit into that strategy."...
BEER980 wrote:I tried to tell you all about this a week ago in anotherthread.
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