Thursday, July 12, 2007

There is so much terrorist "noise" that some agents and officers have already dubbed June and July a "summer of chatter."

Found this post at jihadchat.com
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Dozens of FBI agents have been given a two-week deadline to run down more than 700 leads on an FBI "worry list," developed in the wake of the failed attacks in London and Glasgow.
The list includes some 100 specific leads in the New York area, senior law enforcement officials also told ABCNews.com.
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White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt 'Summer of '07' Threat
July 11, 2007 2:18 PM
Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & Chris Isham Report:

Senior law enforcement officials said today that the growing signs of a "Summer of '07" terror attack on the U.S. have led the FBI to dispatch dozens of agents to track down new leads across the country.
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Although the White House says there is no credible, imminent threat to the United States, the origin of the intelligence that a small group of al Qaeda terrorists was headed to the United States came from a credible intelligence source, who in the past has been reliable, officials said.
The source of the intelligence specified the small cell was traveling from Pakistan.
The new threat comes as FBI agents were already trying to sort through a mountain of e-mails, jihadist message board postings, telephone intercepts and human source intelligence, in an effort to pluck an intelligence gem from the background of "chatter" louder than has been heard in any recent summer season.
There is so much terrorist "noise" that some agents and officers have already dubbed June and July a "summer of chatter."
Agents also have been running down financial leads and telephone records that could have linked several members of the recent failed London and Glasgow, Scotland incendiary bomb plots to North America.

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