Posted on 15 Aug 2005 # UNI Al Qaeda plotting to attack US cities and London http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=14166 London: American intelligence chiefs have warned that Al-Qaeda terrorists are plotting to drive hijacked fuel tankers into petrol stations in an effort to cause mass casualties in London and US cities in the next few weeks. The leaked warning, contained in a bulletin issued by the US Department for Homeland Security last week, says the attacks aim to create catastrophic damage at about the time of the fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. The warning came as it emerged that the British Department for Transport had for the first time issued guidelines ordering a tightening of security around the UK road tanker fleet. The US warning has been circulated among law enforcement agencies and fuel transport agencies. Although a preamble states that ''no other intelligence exists to corroborate this specific threat,'' the intelligence report is highly specific. It says: ''Al-Qaeda leaders plan to employ various types of fuel trucks as vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED) in an effort to cause mass casualties in the US (and London), prior to September 19.'' Amidst these latest warnings, Scotland Yard admitted last night that they were no nearer to finding a mastermind behind the July 7 bombings. A focus for the investigation will be to trace any video evidence recorded by the four bombers admitting the attacks, as other British suicide bombers have done in the past. Counter-terrorism officers want to pour more manpower into investigating the July 7 atrocity but will now have to concentrate on the weekend warning from the US Department of Homeland Security. Scotland Yard's priority remains preventing another attack but it will draft more officers into hunting the support network behind the 7/7 attacks, which killed 56 people. Police do not know where the four bombers spent the night before the attack and senior officers do not believe that they acted alone. One senior source said: ''The background of these four does not suggest that they could have done everything themselves. Someone had to train them in building a sophisticated set of bombs and all sorts of other logistical support.'' [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h7pbbmp/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124134473/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
