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To: stockman_scott who wrote (152877)	2/12/2003 10:47:13 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 164687

Highly-placed sources within both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency tell Capitol Hill Blue that while “chatter” has increased in recent days, they have no hard evidence a new attack is forthcoming from Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda terrorist network or any of the dozens of other terrorist groups currently monitored. Therefore, there is no threat - it's all a political ploy. Yeah, ok. Whatever. BTW, is "hard evidence" anything like "the smoking gun"? Did you know that a gun doesn't smoke until it's been fired? Here's another report on the "alert", which, in case you don't understand "alert", means the government has found information indicating that an attack of some sort MAY be forthcoming. If the "evidence" were as "hard" as the anti-Bush crowd demands, it'd either be too late for lots of people (the victims) or the authorities would have stopped the attack and there'd be no need for an "alert." And in the former case, the Bush-bashers would whine that he didn't do enough, while in the latter, they'd say "told ya' there's nothing to worry about." Anyway, from Reuters: Wed Feb 12, 7:07 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence analysts were alarmed over the mention of a "package" in several intercepted conversations because al Qaeda has used the term in the past as code for bomb material, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Messages from what the newspaper called "suspected terrorists" about delivering "packages" to American soil led officials to raise the country's terror-alert status last week, an official familiar with the new intelligence told the newspaper. After examining other intelligence that they declined to describe, U.S. officials concluded al Qaeda might be planning attacks with "dirty bombs" laced with radiological agents for some time this week, according to the newspaper. The intercepts also mentioned the Arabian peninsula, officials said. One U.S. official told the Journal there was no mention in the intercepted conversations that the attacks might involve chemical weapons or radioactive material, but said intelligence analysts pieced together a theory that those might be involved, based on who was talking and other information he refused to divulge. Specific targets were not mentioned, another official told the newspaper, but there were references to Israel, to hotels and to "the underground," which analysts concluded might mean subway systems. In recent weeks, an official told the newspaper, the U.S. has uncovered more intelligence suggesting cooperation between al Qaeda and Baghdad. Phone calls have been traced between Iraqi security agencies and suspected al Qaeda affiliates, the Journal said, citing the official, who provided no details.