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Monday, July 02, 2007

ABC: Intel says "spectacular" Al Qaeda attack planned this summer

I assume that means we can plan on Bush taking a vacation some time soon. (Note that the ABC story doesn't make clear if the "spectacular" attack is targeted at the US or where, though it implies that the US is the target.) Also, it's interesting that there was also intelligence suggesting an attack against an airport in Glasgow, yet the Scottish authorities never received the intel. Did we give it to them?

From 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....

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.

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