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Feds Warn Of Possible NYC Terror Plot, FBI: “Plausible But Unsubstantiated” Report Of Al Qaeda Plans To Attack Subway System

The FBI has warned New York area law enforcement of a “plausible but unsubstantiated” al Qaeda suicide bomb attack against the area’s commuter rail systems over the holiday.

An internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says the FBI has received a “plausible but unsubstantiated” report that al Qaeda terrorists in late September may have discussed attacking the subway system.

Department of Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said the warning was issued as a routine matter, but added that there may be an increased police presence in New York and other large metropolitan areas.

A US official said the FBI report had been issued “out of an abundance of caution” and that “there is nothing concrete to suggest the plot went beyond the talking stage.”

The report indicates that al Qaeda terrorists “in late September may have discussed targeting transit systems in and around New York City. These discussions reportedly involved the use of suicide bombers or explosives placed on subway/passenger rail systems,” according to the document.

“We have no specific details to confirm that this plot has developed beyond aspirational planning, but we are issuing this warning out of concern that such an attack could possibly be conducted during the forthcoming holiday season,” states the warning, which is dated Tuesday.

While federal agencies regularly issue all sorts of advisory warnings, the language of this one is particularly blunt.

Intelligence and homeland security officials are working with local authorities to try to corroborate the information “and will continue to investigate every possible lead,” the memo says.

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  • Anthony said:

    It is so sad that the world has come to this

    - 26 November 2008 at 5:30 pm
  • GEM said:

    This is not actually new development. If anyone remembers this same warning came to public couple years back and the plot was stopped BEFORE it occured. NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. God bless the U.S.

    - 27 November 2008 at 1:20 am
  • 111 said:

    ETA “kills” a Basque businessman

    The company he worked for the victim was threatened on several occasions.
    A businessman was shot dead in front of a restaurant in the Basque Country in northern Spain, by members of the radical Basque separatist band ETA, police said.

    Ignacio Uria Mendizabal, 71 years, working as an adviser to one of the builders of the new high-speed train, a project that ETA had threatened repeatedly.

    The fact is nearly a month after the arrest of Mikel Garikoitz, alias “Txeroki,” who is believed to be the chief operating officer of the group.

    See also: catching the military leader of ETA
    The employer would be the fourth victim of the gang in 2008, still has not denied nor claimed responsibility for the attack.

    Attack

    According to authorities, Uria received several shots, one in front and another in the chest in a parking lot in the town of Azpetia, near San Sebastian.

    The construction company he worked for had received several warnings from the extremist gang, which this year placed three explosive devices in companies involved in building the high speed train.

    The armed group is opposed to this project which aims to connect the main Basque cities (Bilbao, Vitoria and San Sebastian) with the capital, Madrid.

    Political aftermath

    The French police arrested in November to “Txeroki”, the alleged military leader of ETA.

    In the town where the businessman was murdered, Azpetia, the attack had immediate political consequences.

    The e-independence nationalist party Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Solidarity) decided to leave the municipal government, after which both the mayor and other councilors of the Basque Nationalist Action (ANV) refused to condemn the attack.

    In a statement, EA said that “violence has no place in Euskal Herria and that claims of sovereignty tract is radically inconsistent with the attacks on ETA.”

    Precedent

    It is not the first time that the separatist group acting against projects in the region.

    In the 80s, the nuclear power plant in Lemóniz was never completed after ETA killed two engineers and three workers.

    A decade after the construction of the motorway Leizarán, which connects with Guipúzcoa Navarre, was also threatened and four other people were killed, which forced institutions to renegotiate the route.

    - 3 December 2008 at 7:05 pm

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