terror spectacular
[I love these “secret docs” that somehow become non-secret - esp when
revealed by a GOP-leaning outfit like ABC News.]
Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror ‘Spectacular’ Planned Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11
By BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and RICHARD ESPOSITO July 1, 2007
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.