Avoid hard targets tomorrow
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Fri Sep 21 09:02:27 PDT 2001
I think I may take a brief away-from-DC trip...
>From the London TImes
>
>THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 2001
>
>Weekend alert as FBI warns of new attack
>
>BY DOMINIC KENNEDY AND DAMIAN WHITWORTH
>
>AMERICA and the West are bracing themselves for another potential
>"Day of Infamy" this Saturday, when accomplices of the hijackers are
>suspected of having plotted new outrages.
>
>The most solid evidence so far is the discovery that five associates
>of the suicide gang had booked seats on two internal passenger
>flights, taking them from Texas to California, in two days' time.
>
>FBI agents are trying to capture as many key operatives as possible
>before any plot can be put into action.
>
>Water, gas and electricity suppliers, bridges, tunnels and
>underground railways have increased security because of the perceived
>threat of biological, chemical or physical attacks.
>
>In a dramatic development, three Arab airport workers in Detroit were
>arrested after FBI agents found them in a house with handwritten
>sketches of an airport, aircraft and runways. They had a notebook
>containing information about the "American base in Turkey", "Alia
>Airport" in Jordan and the "American foreign minister", legal
>documents state. The three, Ahmed Hanna, 33, Karim Koubriti, 23, and
>Farouk Ali-Halmoud, 21, from Morocco and Algeria, worked at Detroit
>Metropolitan Airport preparing food for airlines.
>
>FBI agents stumbled across the trio while searching the address of
>Habil al-Marabh, a suspected associate of the World Trade Centre
>hijackers. The Arabs said that they did not know him. They have been
>charged with conspiracy and having false immigration papers.
>
>The FBI is concentrating its energies on deterring more attacks this
>Saturday. "Yes, we have heard something about September 22 but
>nothing specific," an investigative source told America's Knight
>Ridder news service.
>
>"We have information that leads us to believe that there could be
>more attacks very soon. The same murky sources that indicated
>something might be happening in the weeks before the attacks have
>indicated something may be happening this weekend."
>
>Bob Graham, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that
>the New York and Washington suicide strikes were "part of a larger
>plan with other terrorism acts, not necessarily the hijacking of
>airplanes".
>
>The FBI has issued a "watch list" of 223 people suspected of being
>associates of the hijackers. Nearly a quarter of the people on the
>list are able to fly aircraft.
>--
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