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The FBI today issued an alarming alert to state and local law enforcement agencies. “In selecting its next targets,” the alert said, “sources suggest Al Qaeda may favor spectacular attacks that meet several criteria: high symbolic value, mass casualties, severe damage to the American economy and maximum psychological trauma. The highest-priority targets remain within the aviation, petroleum and nuclear sectors, as well as significant national landmarks.” The alert also warned law enforcement officials to be on guard against smaller attacks with cruder materials like simple explosives.
Several officials said that today’s warning was genuine, although they added that there was no intelligence about the time, place or method of any such attack. Officials said that the number of intercepted communications and informant reports had increased in recent days.
The alert was in response to the tape attributed to bin Laden played on Al Jazeera television on Tuesday, which is increasingly being viewed as authentic, and to other events, including attacks on American marines in Kuwait, and the possibility of reprisals for the killing of the al Qaeda leader in Yemen.
In addition, Thursday, Mir Aimal Kansi, the Pakistani convicted of killing two CIA employees outside the agency’s headquarters in ’93, was executed, adding to concerns about reprisals from a number of Islamic terrorist groups. Police1 reminds Law Enforcement to continue to be aware that there are a number of Islamic terrorist groups, in addition to al Qaeda that pose threats domestically.
Source: FBI
Priority Level (1 = Lowest, 5 = Highest)
- National Level 5
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