FBI Warns al-Qaida Will Try More Attacks

[Kadie]

FBI Warns al-Qaida Will Try More Attacks

1 hour, 23 minutes ago

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) is warning that al-Qaida could attempt to commandeer helicopters, limousines and other rental vehicles to launch attacks inside the United States.

Helicopters are more maneuverable than fixed-wing airplanes, especially in urban areas such as New York, and the FBI said they also have a "non-threatening appearance" that might allow them to fly undetected and be crashed into buildings.

"Al-Qaida has apparently considered the use of helicopters as an alternative to recruiting operatives for fixed-wing aircraft," said the bulletin, sent Friday night to police and other government officials nationwide and obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

The second bulletin, also sent Friday night, said that terrorists could use a variety of rental vehicles to conceal powerful bombs, including limousines that have a larger storage capacity than rental cars.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=3&u=/ap/20040809/ap_on_re_us/terror_threats

[demnan]

1. Give me an F***ing break!

I'm sick of this! Hey Biden ain't buying this either!

[papau]

8. Non-Political Terror-Bush family visits CITI -now Helicopter Tours Proceed

Non-Political Terror-Bush family visits CITI -now Helicopter Tours Proceed


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB4JIETOXD.html

Helicopter Tours in New York Proceed Despite Reports of Terror Threat
By Karen Matthews Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Tourists boarded helicopters for sightseeing tours of the New York area on Monday despite reports that al-Qaida has considered using tour copters in terrorist attacks.

"We're all here and we're all together," said Gisele Dorte of Martinique, who boarded a Liberty Helicopter Tours chopper with her family.

The FBI sent two bulletins Friday night to police and other government officials nationwide. The first warned of a possible helicopter threat in a U.S. city.

"Al-Qaida has apparently considered the use of helicopters as an alternative to recruiting operatives for fixed-wing aircraft," said the bulletin, obtained Monday by The Associated Press. <snip>

[Parche]

2. terra

more terra, keep the people terra fied
the sky is falling

[prodigal_green]

3. Hmm...rental vehicles, you mean like McVeigh used?

No shit--both the WTC '93 attack and Oklahoma City employed rental vehicles. I hear they are also planning to use incendiary devices...

on edit: as the Chimp said, "they never stop thinking of ways to harm America and the American People, and neither do we..."

[Webster Green]

4. Who gives a shit?

I'm too busy tring to pay the rent.

Sorry, I'm not scared!

[Beetwasher]

5. A Terror Alert A Day!

Keeps disastrous poll numbers at bay!

[skypilot]

6. It's a given that Al Qaeda is...

...planning more attacks. What pisses me off is when this administration pretends to know specifics. These alerts read like something that some folks sat around drinking and thinking up. Not to mention that if this shit was real they wouldn't give us so much info. Whatever happened to not wanting to reveal sources and methods?

[DoBotherMe]

7. How can they attack the U.S.

when we have them surrounded in Iraq? <sarcasm>

[wordout]

9. Limosines, lol

BFEE using what they got.

[truthisfreedom]

10. yawn... it must be monday.

fear incorporated lobs a monday morning volley.

[Journeyman]

11. What happened to the terrorist frogmen?. . .

The terrorist long-haul truck drivers? The terrorist cropdusters? The terrorist train engineers? The terrorist mall walkers? Or any of the thousand other iterations of the terrorist threat?

[noonwitch]

12. Terrorist Mall Walkers-LOL

I can see it now-an army of elderly mall walkers becoming terrorists!