Who links to me?
The Islamofascists sure don’t. Read this story at the New York Daily News.
The FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in hopes of causing a torrent of water to deluge lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.The terrorists sought to drown the Financial District as New Orleans was by Hurricane Katrina, sources said. They also wanted to attack subways and other tunnels.
Counterterrorism officials are alarmed by the “lone wolf” terror plot because they allegedly got a pledge of financial and tactical support from Jordanian associates of top terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before he was killed in Iraq, a counterterrorism source told The News.
It’s good to see somebody at the FBI is on the case:
The FBI discovered the plot by monitoring Internet chat rooms, where the aspiring terrorists discussed striking the U.S. economy, rather than causing mass casualties, a source said.
“They’re hell-bent on destroying the economy in the U.S.,” a counterterrorism source said.
others blogging:
Ranting Profs point out something I was thinking when reading the story:
But given that this is an on-going investigation it would have been better if this hadn’t come out.
this shows the value in having national-security agencies involved in tracking international communications. While many bemoan the idea of “Big Brother”, and for some good reason, our safety demands that we catch these terrorists before they strike. Just as in any war, that means we have to penetrate their communications. The terrorists, not having the centralized government of an actual state, use decentralized communications and exploit Western openness on our own systems instead. In this case, we found out about the plot by eavesdropping on Internet chat rooms, but we can certainly bet that once we found this, we started tracing and tracking all kinds of communications to identify the perpetrator and any contacts he made.
The Strata-Sphere says this story is proof of the damage the NYT Swift story caused:
Linking PostsThat means the NY Times stories exposing our anti-terrorism defences did threaten this ongoing investigation. We have the NSA monitoring the overseas communications (and probably and overseas chat room), and then we have the FBI following the leads to the jihadists here. And there was financial tracking from elements in Jordan. How is the NY Times going to dismiss the fact this investigation was definitely at risk of being lost through their carelessness and cavalier attitudes?
You Mean Listening In On Our Enemies Actually Works?…
So instead of getting the whole crew who were planning this operation we get one Al-Qaeda agent. It’s rare that any law enforcement agency moves in to get just one guy, take it from a cop. You listen and watch until you identify every player. …
Trackback by Flopping Aces � July 7, 2006 @ 10:16 am
Holland Tunnel Bomb Plot Disrupted…
The terrorists would not have to succeed in flooding Lower Manhattan in order to succeed in creating a mass casualty attack, damaging the local economy, and causing billions in damage. Downplaying such threats is a dangerous game, and the terrorists …..
Trackback by A Blog For All � July 7, 2006 @ 11:25 am
Another Terrorist Operation Foiled!…
With the assistance of foreign intelligence agencies, the FBI has uncovered a Jihadist plot to bomb the Holland Tunnel and bridges in New York. US officials were working closely with Lebanese authorities and other foreign intelligence agencies to thwar…
Trackback by PartisanTimes.com � July 7, 2006 @ 12:19 pm
[…] Anonymous sources now report the threat of endless “aspirational” threats. That serves the White House narrative. Now we hear “suiciders” plotted to blow up the PATH tubes under the Hudson. Some leaks are not leaks at all. Why? One Bush follower after the next who has been furiously protesting the publication of leaks by the NYT and other newspapers – almost all of whom has accused the NYT of treason, of providing aid and comfort to their Al Qaeda friends, etc. for reporting leaked classified information — have written today about this leaked story. But all of them are ecstatic over this story, celebrating it as a great and heroic blow for the Bush administration and as proof that The Terrorists really are the Epic Threat they’ve been claiming. And almost none of them are protesting the unauthorized leak, let alone calling for the reporters and editors at the Daily News to be sent to gas chambers or put in federal prison for the rest of their lives. […]
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You Mean Listening In On Our Enemies Actually Works?…
So Al-Qaeda was planning on blowing up the Holland Tunnel in New York City in an attempt to flood that area of the city, specifically the Financial District. The FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists……
Trackback by Flopping Aces � December 31, 2006 @ 3:19 pm