Okay, folks, This is REAL Important, and I am FREAKING OUT!!

[Eloriel]

Edited to add: Truly pathetic that people can't bother to read the material specified before commenting. This is NOT about the fear factor or crying wolf or anything else. This is WAY bigger than that. Since so few DUers could bother reading the 2nd thread's OP, I'm editing to add it to, and do your work for you. The rest of you are looking pretty damned silly in the meantime.

First, post #11 from this thread:

ABC News: Attacks from Al Quaeda imminent in NYC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-31-04 06:48 PM
Response to Original message

11. ABC News: Big Apple Terror?


Big Apple Terror?
Sources: Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations

N E W Y O R K, July 31, 2004 — ABC News has learned that federal and New York City officials have received credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city.

Sources at several law enforcement agencies tell ABC News that an "overseas source" has provided the information about the threat to New York and that it is more significant than the usual "chatter" intercepted from likely terrorists that has prompted warnings in the past.

Officials from dozens of local and federal agencies met into the night Friday and again this morning.

Intelligence sources say al Qaeda plans to move non-Arab terrorists across the border with Mexico. Authorities already have in custody a woman of Pakistani-origin arrested after crossing into Texas. She carried a South African passport with several of the pages torn out, $7,000 in cash and an airplane ticket to New York.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/new_york_city_ter...
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Now read the OP in this thread:

What In The World Is Going On Along The Mexican Border
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

ADDED ON EDIT, the subject post from the above thread, so maybe people will read it before shooting off their mouths AS IF they know what they're talking about:

loindelrio (95 posts) Sat Jul-31-04 04:31 PM
Original message
What In The World Is Going On Along The Mexican Border


LIHOP/MIHOP theories regarding 9/11 have never gained much credibility with me. My view has been that the administration placed too little emphasis on counterterrorism since it was one of the major concerns of the Clinton administration, thus facilitating the 9/11 attackers through bureaucratic incompetence.

However, when I hear the following during an interview on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" 1-1/2 months ago:

" . . agents are forced to sit eight to 10 hours a day in one spot in order not to move from that spot, even if aliens are crossing within yards of them . . . This comes straight from the top and nobody has signed an order to that effect, but those are the standing orders out there in the field, and if agents violate them, they are subject to discipline."

Then an article in a Tombstone, AZ paper that states:

". . . at least two documented accounts of Border Patrol agents encountering large groups of non-Spanish speaking males in the Chiricahua foothills and on trails along the high mountain areas . . . 71 suspected illegal aliens were apprehended; among them were 53 males of middle-eastern descent"

Then our 'terra' warning of this week for CA and NM.

Kinda gets you thinkin' about a LIHOP around the time of the election.

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FBI Issues Terror Warning for Calif., N.M.
July 30, 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-436683 ...
. . .

The FBI warned police in California and New Mexico that it received information about possible terrorist activity in their states. However, the warning wasn't specific about particular targets or a method of attack, a federal law enforcement official said Thursday.

. . .

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Breaking Silence over a Possible Terror Threat
July 23, 2004

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database= ...

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According to the Tombstone editor’s sources, on June 13, 2004, Border Patrol agents from the Wilcox, Ariz., patrol station encountered a large group of illegal border crossers in the Chiricaucha Mountain foothills, just east of what is known as The Sanders Ranch. Agents estimated that the group comprised about 100 people.

Border Patrol sources who were present at this mass apprehension state that they seized 71 illegal aliens, of whom 53 were males of Middle Eastern decent. The suspects did not speak Spanish and spoke only poor English, sources told the newspaper.

In fact, after a group of the detainees had been placed in a transport van, one Border Patrol agents on the scene who speaks Arabic and Farsi, the native language of Iran, clearly overheard the detainees speaking Arabic through an air vent in the transport vehicle.

Higher-ups in the Border Patrol allegedly ordered these agents involved not to say a thing to the news media.

. . .

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Edited again, to bold MORE so MAYBE some smart cookie (the kind DU used to have plenty of) will actually read the pertinent parts. Sheesh. Guess I should chalk it up to the Saturday night crowd.