February 16, 2003
AL QAEDA VS. HISPANICS?:
Al-Qaeda had planned attacks on US on Feb 12: Report (Press Trust of India, February 16, 2003)The US has credible intelligence that al Qaeda had an attack or multiple attacks set to begin at some point last week and that members of the Congress could have been the terrorist outfit's likely target, a media report said today.Counter-terrorism officials were today quoted as saying that they had received a phone tip that members of the United States Congress could have beene targets of assassination attempts by Islamic fundamentalists.
Intelligence reports gathered from human and electronic sources around the world suggested what intelligence officials had suspected for weeks- al Qaeda operatives "Are in the execution phase of some of their operations," a senior US offficial was quoted by 'Time' magazine as saying.
Officials said the intelligence specifically mentioned that the likely targets were New York City and Washington on February 12.
It seems increasingly likely that when we finally find out everything that's been going on, this threat will prove to be why Bill Frist did not make Senate Democrats maintain their Miguel Estrada filibuster through this holiday. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 16, 2003 10:04 PM
The crazy thing is that when/if nothing happens, the administration is accused of extraordinary and cynical manipulation by its critics, practically hysterical at this point, on the left.
It's a no-win situation: if you don't warn and something happen, you get raked over the coals; if you warn and nothing happens, you get blasted.
Still, it's encouraging to see that at least there's still someone who can behave like adults.
And now it's snowing, going to be harder. Is God smiling on us? Or is Mother Nature in some small way taking care of the drought?
Posted by: Sandy P at February 17, 2003 2:04 AMIt seems petty to put the Estrade nomination in the same camp as a potential terrorist threat.
Conservatives/bloggers have jumped all over Frist for not keeping the senate in session. If this true, and Frist forces the Dems to filibuster right when they get back in session it should still be a win for the GOP