FBI: Al Qaeda May Strike U.S. Shopping Malls in LA, Chicago

[brooklynite]

Source: ABC

The FBI is warning that al Qaeda may be preparing a series of holiday attacks on U.S. shopping malls in Los Angeles and Chicago, according to an intelligence bulletin distributed to law enforcement authorities across the country this morning.

The alert said al Qaeda "hoped to disrupt the U.S. economy and has been planning the attack for the past two years."

Law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com that the FBI received the information in late September and declassified it yesterday for wide distribution.

The alert, like similar FBI and Department of Homeland Security terror alerts issued over the past five years at holiday times, raised questions about the credibility of the information.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/exclusive-f...

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Boo!

Seriously, hasn't this been an urban legend floating around since the days after 9/11?

[gateley]

1. Zzzzzzzzz... ntt

[angstlessk]

2. they certainly could not do more to distrupt holiday shopping than boosh

has already, 15 billion dollars short because of gasoline prices, early discounts in order for retail to reach in our pockets before our heating bills come due..sorry al quida in usa cannot do more!

[tridim]

3. The FBI may be crying wolf.. Again

Who believes this crap any more? Just Freepers and Fundies?

[Hobarticus]

4. Dubya has disrupted spending well enough on his own, kthxbai. eom.

[ohio2007]

5. The holiday EID season is over

they'l have to wait to plant their ied's next eid

eom

[nancyr]

7. Who can afford to go shopping???

The economy is already shot.

[RamboLiberal]

9. Exactly

With gasoline & heating oil prices I sure can't afford to go to the mall. Terrorists may find them mostly empty.

[tridim]

12. Maybe this BS warning is cover for the predicted disasterous sales numbers?

"Poor sales this year are not related to our horrible economy, it's all the terraists fault."

[ljm2002]

25. My thoughts exactly n/t

[Karenina]

40. Bingo!

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. ...

[AndyA]

46. I think you've got it! DING! DING!! DING!!!

I'll bet even now, retailers are busy trying to figure out how they're going to salvage this holiday season. Gas prices, home heating oil costs, tighter credit, a dollar that's dropping faster than a rock, a backlash against purchasing goods made in China, and falling consumer confidence are all blending together for a perfect storm.

This is just an old idea of KKKarl Rove's they're still using to try to divert attention from the real reasons: BUSH'S ECONOMY SUCKS. We're being ripped of by Bushco, and our Congress isn't doing anything to stop it.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Can't be true. They've all been crushed in Baghdad. General said so.

[spotbird]

13. That's right!

We're fighting them there, so they won't come here.

Say, if they come here anyway, does that mean we can get out of Iraq?

[leveymg]

8. There won't be any crowds in the shopping malls this year, anyway.

War's over. Bush killed Santa Claus.

[jakem]

10. The FBI MAY BE on Jenkem. nt

[spotbird]

11. They'd better pass FISA ,and soon.

We all need to be safe to shop for Christmas!

[kelligesq]

14. Funny, we talk impeachment and the fib comes out with warning

do you think there might be a connection?

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. There usually is with bu$hco.

[bdamomma]

15. who has the money to go out shopping for x-mas?

open wide, Fear being inserted again.

[aquart]

16. Is he deliberately out to bankrupt the nation's businesses?

Retailers depend on Christmas. Now the FBI wants to make people afraid to shop?

Are we going to need passports to enter a mall?

[Zhade]

17. Well, what a relief no one can afford to shop in them this holiday season!

See, a silver lining to a failing economy!

[SyntaxError]

18. by strike they mean shop.

[Joanne98]

19. They'll have to compete with the poison Chinese toys!

[sce56]

20. Is this a wag the dog? Be afraid werry werry afraid you rascly wabbits

Politics of fear at work for the Bush admini once again..

[Journeyman]

21. At last! Shoppers to the Front Lines! Credit Cards at the Ready!. . .

Charge at Will! . . .

[defendandprotect]

22. Cargill may kill Americans with E-coli laced ground chuck . . . !!!

[tiptoe]

23. Is that Bush's "FBI"? or Blackwater's?? Where's Pat Tillman, when we need him? nt

[Kittycat]

24. Did something major just happen, that we need another distraction?

eom

[Rosie1223]

26. This alert sponsored by your local Wal-Mart

[mamameow]

27. ????????

now what could be happening that would warrant a "terrorist" alert? especially one that would carry us through to the end of the year??? oh yah, the primaries are coming up!!!!!!! bushies, go suck rocks!!!!!!!

[Fiendish Thingy]

28. Great news! One more excuse I can give my wife...

for doing all our holiday shopping online.

[Blaze Diem]

29. self delete.

dummy

[kimmylavin]

30. At least they called them on it.

"The alert, like similar FBI and Department of Homeland Security terror alerts issued over the past five years at holiday times, raised questions about the credibility of the information."

They've been doing this every freaking year.

Just another one for KO to add to his "something bad happens to BushCo, a terror warning is released" string of hits...

[TalkingDog]

31. If that's how they are going to sell dismal retail numbers that's fine....

But I doubt anybody with half a brain will buy it.

That just leaves Bush supporters and Mr. Bush himself.



My Favorite Master Artist: Karen Parker GhostWoman Studios

[Betsy Ross]

32. War on Christmas! n/t

[tanyev]

33. Oh, God, no! Not SHOPPING MALLS!

One of the most sacred expressions of all that is American. How dare they!

[burf]

39. Because they

hate us for our shopping. Be afraid, be very afraid!

[Akoto]

34. Oh man, someone protect the Cinnabon! n/t

[jayfish]

35. Bu, Bu, But, King George Told Us All Go Shopping.

They've gone and ruined the only place I feels safe in merica anymore.

Jay

[MagickMuffin]

63. GEORGE BUSH: TO BEAT TERROR, KEEP SHOPPING!

Happy Happy Joy Joy to the world the Mad king Boy George wants us to shop to beat terrorism.

[JuniperLea]

36. don't freak me out, man!

hehe... just kidding... total urban legend material. you nailed it.

this part cracks me up most of all: "The alert said al Qaeda "hoped to disrupt the U.S. economy and has been planning the attack for the past two years."



too late, ya dumbass al qaeda rascals! bush beat you to it! we haven't much else left to lose!!!

[kay1864]

37. I love this line in the alert...

This information ...was provided to the source by a sub-source who spoke in confidence.

Curveball, is that you?

[Aviation Pro]

38. Two words....

Bull and shit.

[superconnected]

43. 1. Why aren't they stopping that?

2. What's their point? Everyone in Chicago should avoid shopping malls during the holiday season?

Or most likely:

3. To spread fear so they can get more funding and so can the war.

[Turbineguy]

44. Maybe

they'll pick a day when Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and a few others of their ilk are buying shoes.

[peace13]

45. Great...

we can blame the poor holiday sales on al Qaeda instead of the economy being in the toilet. This will backfire on them. Peace, kim

[nealmhughes]

47. Urban Legend: everyone knows that it is football games they are after!

n/t

[Odin2005]

48. Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! n/t.

[Ilsa]

49. Your economy needs you! Go shopping pre-emptively, before they

attack our malls and ruin our economy!

[davsand]

50. Well, they want an excuse to go into Iran...

I dunno, maybe I am paranoid (who wouldn't be after the last 8 years?) but I have got to say that I have wondered what they were gonna dream up to get us into Iran. I would hope to hell I am wrong--but if you think 9/11 was allowed to happen you have got to wonder what they will do next. Going after the malls during the holiday shopping season would sure as hell piss off a bunch of people...

I am not a mall person anyway, but there are a LOT of people in this country that are.






Laura

[Sam Ervin jret]

52. People maybe

but they're not nor

[classysassy]

51. Al Kay Da

Lives in Big Sandy,Tx,he proberly will strike there on thanksgiving,beware of him.

[Ian David]

53. Pay no attention to the veto over-ride and the impeachment of Dick Cheney. Look! Shiney object! n/t

[kelligesq]

66. hee hee hee. you are so right n/t

.

[Ian David]

54. Al Qaeda plans on putting lead in our toys! No, wait...

Bush did that.

Thanks, Nanchy Nohrd!

[pinniped]

55. Someone's been watching late night re-runs of Chuck Norris' Invasion USA.

.

[appleannie1]

56. But we are fighting them over there so we do not have to

fight them over here. Jr. said so. Do you think this came out because of the bad economic news making the rounds and the possibility that Dickie boy might be impeached?

[laststeamtrain]

57. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES. GODZILLA IS COMING!!! n/t

[blues90]

58. I am so sick of this crap !

If there will be an attack then for crips sake lets have a few and get it the hell over with . I am so sick of these warnings and besides I have not one red cent to go shopping anyway .

Nothing makes sense anymore and new shiney things are not going to make things make sense .

We will do what we have done for years now , even though we are not religous we will hope for that old time holiday spirit that people used to display even though it is pretty much dead around here lately .

[Al Federfer]

59. FEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEAR n/t

[lovuian]

60. We are coming up to 11/11/2007

thats why the alerts and get the fear going
plus the Iran situation

[kelligesq]

67. so ? does 11/11 have some special meaning? n/t

.

[Celefin]

68. 11.11. at 11:11 am...

is the start of "fool's season" in Germany...

(culminating in the German carnival in February,
probably best known for the rather political/
satirical touch of the festivities in the big cities
along the Rhine.
Mostly to dumb to be fun.
But then... that could be said of many things nowadays.

fitting.

[merh]

61. Is this "leak" to cover the admin's ass

when holiday shopping is in the shitter because no one can afford to spend because of the cost of gas and heating fuel and a gallon of milk and that silly thing known as food?

They scare people away from shopping who weren't going to be able to shop any way.

[daleo]

62. Why would Al-quada want to disrupt the U.S. economy?

When Bush is doing such a good job on his own?

[NuttyFluffers]

64. Noooo, don't blow up my Hot Dog on a Stick!

i love that lemonade!

[skoalyman]

65. hell I think chinas already beatem to the punch with all there crazy lead

and date rape toys