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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Scoobah who wrote (1375)12/30/2001 3:59:10 PM
From: Scoobah  Read Replies (1) of 32591
 
TERROR PLOT ON US CARRIER FOILED December 30, 2001

UPI reports: “Acting on U.S. intelligence gathered in Afghanistan, the Singapore government earlier this month raided a ‘terrorist nest’ and arrested 12 alleged al Qaida members suspected of planning an attack on the island nation's deep-water Navy port, top Pentagon and other government officials said.
Two suspected terrorists escaped arrest, Pentagon officials said.

Singapore officials have also failed to locate two tons of explosives intended to be used in the attack or attacks, a military official said.

Neither the Singapore government nor the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged the raid out of concern over compromising the source of the intelligence, a Pentagon official said.

Singapore Embassy officials in Washington, D.C., said they were unaware of the operation. American officials said they could not put an exact date on the raid nor identify the Singapore agency that carried it out.

The USS Carl Vinson was scheduled to use the port later in December so ‘people were pretty squirrelly’ about the information and moved swiftly to act on it, a U.S. government official said on Friday…”
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