Whining and threatening is business as usual for al-Qaida, but for some reason authorities are taking this international ‘unsubstatiated’ threat especially seriously.
NYPD Mobilizes Against Dirty Bomb Threat, But No Evidence Found So Far
New York City police are checking cars and monitoring the air this afternoon in response to an unsubstantiated terror threat involving a “dirty bomb,” but so far authorities say they have found no evidence to verify the threat.
Authorities last night established a series of checkpoints in Lower Manhattan and at other Manhattan entry points, where officers were checking cars and trucks and questioning drivers in response to what the NYPD called a “reported radiological threat.” […]
The website alleged that monitors had intercepted Internet chatter suggesting that al Qaeda was planning a radioactive truck attack on American targets that included New York, Los Angeles and Miami.
“The chatter came in a rush Thursday p.m. our time on various al Qaeda coded forums,” an editor with the Jerusalem-based website said when contacted Saturday via e-mail. “Friday, it stopped, but was resumed Saturday. These are internal sites used by al Qaeda operatives. They don’t usually refer specifically to operations on this scale. Our monitors therefore alerted us.”
One answer about why this net information is being acted come from Catherine Herridge at Fox News. She has just reported that the person on the al-Qaida site who has discussed this potential event one year ago also revealed the liquid bomb airline threat before it came to the attention of British authorities.
