Not sure how serious to take this story, but ABC News is reporting that the FBI has issued a warning regarding the potential for suicide bomb attacks at sporting events this month:
March 10, 2006 — With college basketball championships under way around the country, the FBI has warned stadium operators of a possible suicide bomb attack at sporting events.
In a directive issued today, obtained by ABC News, the FBI said a posting on an extremist message board “advocated suicide attacks against sporting events as a cost-effective means of killing thousands of Americans.”
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said they cannot confirm the credibility of the threat or whether the message is affiliated with al Qaeda.
The FBI said the Internet posting said the suicide attacks would be justified because the United States refused a truce offered by Osama bin Laden in his last videotaped statement, Jan. 19, 2006. […]
According to the FBI bulletin, the author of the posting recommended using “three to five blond or black American Muslim suicide bombers.” The FBI said the author suggested that homemade explosives be hidden under their winter clothing.
The posting recommended, according to the FBI, that one suicide bomber detonate inside the stadium and the others detonate at exit gates as spectators were fleeing.
“The combined explosions would create a panic that would kill far more spectators than the bombing alone,” the FBI quotes the message as saying.
Does this sound real to you or is it the usual ginned up terror alert we’ve come to expect whenever Bush’s poll numbers take a hit? The trouble with the way the Bush administration has played the “terror card” is that we just don’t know. When will little boy Bush’s warning that the wolf has come be real for once?
In any event, might want to reconsider your NCAA tournament plans if you have tickets for any of the games in the coming weeks. Maybe.
wow, we posted within 20 seconds of each other. Oh well. More content for everyone.
This sounds like maybe the author of the email threat is a friend of those guys arrested for burning all those churches in Alabama.
it’s someone who wants to score cheap tickets, and figures someone will believe it and dump theirs…
Isn’t this the sort of thing that re-electing Bush/Cheney was supposed to prevent? I thought that we were so much safer, fighting them terrerists over there instead of over here….
Maybe that is why there are so many empty seats at the Big 12 B-ball tourney. Give it back to Kansas City there were never that many empty seats, never always sold out.
Here it goes again. Pump up the fear! Pump it up! AND- what better venue than the March Madness sites. Just look at the coverage. Brilliant.
These pieces of shite have absolutely no morals. None.
I’ll bet ya that the media jump all over it. And it has a built in set of legs!
Google sometimes for the internal webpages from DHS that someone managed to get a copy of. Page after page after page after page of scary sounding credible threats.
Pax
Gives a whole new meaning to “March Madness,” (there – somebody had to say it, LOL) whether you believe the story is real or not.
Guess the U of TX ricin scare didn’t do the job.
Guess you can tell I’m over the fear game.
I was at the East TN Environmental Conference the last couple of days, and yesterday morning had a choice of going to hear the dean of the UT Veterinary school (wonderful guy – met him many times while Mrs. K.P. was in vet school) talk about agroterrorism, or hearing a talk about efforts to bring alternative fuels to the region (which is going gangbusters – but I digress). I chose the latter without a moment’s hesitation, specifically because I’m sick to death of being ginned up to be afraid. We have more important things to do!
Fear is the siren song that says “Drink the Kool-Aid!”
I will not seal off my mind with duct tape.