Perhaps, at least according to …of course…..Brian (gots me cellphone in the ear) Ross and his crack reporter team at ABC:
“A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror “spectacular” this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
“This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001,” the official told ABCNews.com.
U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that the United States did not have “have any specific credible evidence that there’s an attack focused on the United States at this point.”
As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against “airport infrastructure and aircraft.”
The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received “no advance intelligence” that Glasgow might be a target.
Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on on the report today, but said “everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa.”
Unlike the United States, officials in Germany have publicly warned that the country could face a major attack this summer, also comparing the situation to the pre-9/11 summer of 2001.”
Nobody I can refer this to confirms this document or any specific chatter related to such a plan, but hey, it’s Brian Ross. In actuality however we’ve been on high alert since last summer and so I wouldn’t be surprised if certain cells were planning something.
It’s comforting to know that so far the “mules” sent to carry out the attacks in London and Scotland appeared to have attended the Three Stooges Academy of Terrorism.
Still we all want to keep our eyes open and stay vigilant when traveling. In spite of what the Larry (pay no attention to those planes circling the twin towers) Johnsons say, it’s still a dangerous world and the War on Terror goes on.
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Linda
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:21 am
1IMO, in his desire topublish something spectacular on a regular basis, Brian Ross has become someone’s mouthpiece.
Every time he receives a “leak” from an anonymous source, the hairs on the back of my head stand up.
He just prints what’s leaked to him. He is not an investigative reporter – not in politics anyway.
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