Exclusive: FBI: Al Qaeda May Strike U.S. Shopping Malls in LA, Chicago

Great…..perhaps this will stop us from buying toys!

Hmm…economy on the rocks, Bush’s disapproval rating hits a record high, dissatisfaction with Iraq hits a record high…BOOGA BOOGA! Terror! Al Qaeda! Look over there!

Too far away from the election; if they stage an attack now they’ll only have to stage another one next year.

Tom Clancy’s book “Teeth of the Tiger” details exactly this type of attack. I believe there were four malls hit simultaneously. The terrorists enter the US via the Mexico border.

They can attack us where ever they want when ever they want thanks to our wide open borders. And when they do attack I want the heads of bush and chertoff for leaving us so vulerable.

Oh no! Not the malls! I mean, the fact that 5 political hacks and bums on the supreme court threw a federal election, and destroyed any remnant of democracy in this country, and that a mass-murdering moron continues to occupy the white house and destroy our nation is OK. But – if the terrorists destroy the malls, where will we get big-screen TVs! This must send chills down the spines of every true ‘merikan.

Do al Qaeda really think this will discourage our economy? If anything, it will bolster already-blossoming E-Commerce. Sorry to be a downer terrorists, but this one looks like a wash.

If they blow up Gamestop before I get my Wii, man am I going to be pissed.

I’m amazed that they haven’t been doing this already. I really am. It would be extremely easy to do relative to a 9-11 type attack. Very glad it hasn’t happened and hope our luck holds.

al Qaeda would be better off to sit back and let China keep doing it.

No problem in Chicago, the terrorists and illegal aliens have free rein over the state of Illinois because our borders are wide open and our immigration laws are NOT enforced. The LA info is ironic – they have the most illegal aliens and liberal law breaking immigration criminal supporting policies of all. Lack of respect for our immigration laws (by our government) is how the 9-11 terrorists were able to move freely about the country. No Changes from 2001 – except maybe worse.

At the rate the economy is going, no worry, none of us will have any money to be at the malls shopping.

in LA???
They trying to take out the gangs or something out there? That would kinda help the police out then

i love that last line about jihadist chat rooms saying how they boast about the attacks… You would hear the same crap in any aol chat room.

Regarding Dave J’s Post: Remember the gas attack on the train system in Spain? Can’t happen? Watch out, this threat is real. Oh, I forgot, we brought the towers down, and OJ IS innocent. Go back to sleep Dave.

They say this every holiday season.
As far as the Economy on the rocks, Washington DA, check the recent reports.
It is a scare tactic, as that is the only thing that keeps people ontheir toes, but to say threats does not exist is to put your head in the (dare I say ) SAND.

Let’s see, there was an planned jihadi bombing of the mall in Cherry Valley, IL and the jihadi shooting up the mall in Utah, both within the last year.
So obviously any warning from the federal government that there could be a coordinated attack at malls during the busiest time of year is obviously a plot by the Bush administration to boost their ratings.

It is not paranoia if they are really trying to kill us–and guess what–they are really trying to kill us.

I’m surprised this hasn’t happened already. Either they haven’t tried or our security services are doing a terrific job.
I wonder what the over-under is for posts about this article calling this warning by the FBI a rightwing conspiracy to scare the public. I’d say at least 100.
It’s real people. It’s our reality for the distant future. Let’s just hope we can stop as many of these attacks as possible.

Let’s see, there was an planned jihadi bombing of the mall in Cherry Valley, IL and the jihadi shooting up the mall in Utah, both within the last year.
So obviously any warning from the federal government that there could be a coordinated attack at malls during the busiest time of year is obviously a plot by the Bush administration to boost their ratings.

My only advice to the ‘terrorist’: you’re going to need ‘Allah’ just to find a parking place.

“I mean, the fact that 5 political hacks and bums on the supreme court threw a federal election, and destroyed any remnant of democracy in this country…”
Gee, I guess if I were al-Qaeda’s strategist this is exactly the kind of hysteria I’d be happy about in my target nation. “No, Ayman, don’t you see? Whenever we attack, half the country blames a neo-con conspiracy, and nevers stops attacking the government and the culture of patriotism for us! It’s brilliant!”
It’s people like you, Bob, who demonstrate why “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Fool.

Who cares…..most normal people shop on the web….what, are these islamic losers gonna blow up the internet too ?

I am glad this is being treated with the contempt it deserves. Not that it might not happen, but if it does, we are not as likely to invade another wrong country.

Where is Jack Bower??????????

WHAT IS WITH EVERYONE?FIRST OF ALL, WHETHER IT’S REAL OR NOT,IT’S NO LAUGHING MATTER-I HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND WORRY ABOUT THEIR FUTURES EVERYDAY-I HOPE AND PRAY THAT WE ARE NOT PUT THROUGH ANOTHER 9/11 OR ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE TO IT-OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO STAND TOGETHER AND BE STRONG,JUST LIKE WE SEEMED TO BE AFTER 9/11.

You have GOT to read the sarcastic comments.
they are priceless!!!!!!

If these attacks take place, I as a conservative would greatly favor impeachment of Bush for he has allowed the border to stay open and God only knows how many terrorists have come in disguised as tomatoe pickers. Terrorists are here to do jobs Americans won’t do too-whacko McVeigh excluded.

Toronoman- Where are you getting that number – 30% of Dems think 911 was an inside job?? Pure B.S.

of course you can blame this on global warming. everybody knows that people get angry when they are too hot, and the global warming is making the climate temperatures rise in the middle east. duh.

And if something did happen and the Bush administration didn’t put out a warning, what then? I imagine all the liberals would be hollering about how Bush knew ahead and let things happen anyway. I am sure the far left would say it was a conspiracy and that Bush was behind it.
The fact is, thier are really evil people in the world. Like it or not, Bush isn’t one of them.
Bush may not be a great president… may even be incompetent, but if the libs don’t figure out who the true enemy is, then we really are in trouble.

Economy on the rocks?? Whats a good economy in your opinion?? I hate people that claim a bad economy when they have personal money trouble. The economy isnt based on JUST YOUR SITUATION you narcisitic liberal !
We should take threats seriuosly. Those that scoff are just ignorant. We shouldnt take the other extreme either and panic like liberal girls.
We just use commen sense and keep vigilant. Why do some feel thats so unreasonable???

This highlights the real harm the Bush Admin did in lying to the world about an Iraqi threat. They can’t be trusted. When there is a real threat the USA no-one will be able to believe them. I can only hope that someday justice will be done and Bush/ Cheney will be in prison where they belong.

“al Qaeda hoped to disrupt the U.S. economy and has been planning the attack for the past two years.” Maybe they should enlist George Bush – he’s done more to crash-dive the economy and devalue the Dollar than any terrorist could dream of doing…

I don’t know if cheney/bush can get away with pulling another 911 sham but it is timely that we’re headed srt8 into a depression and they pull the old pickpocket ruse, bump and distract=TERRORISTS!! YIKES! While we all go broke and our country is ruined from the inside. Shame on us. We’re letting this happen to ourselves. 911 was an inside job designed to have THIS VERY EFFECT. Be afraid while cheney/bush destroy our whole country.

To aboe- what freedoms have you/we lost?
To Trillion 1- Bush/Chertoff want to contain the border, the Dems want everyone to come over and play, and vote!

For all the willing ostriches in America,who keep sticking their heads in the sand, after all the past attacks on the US that you said would not and could not happen— they did happen.
Not only al queda but every other form or organization of terror wants to disrupt life in America.
So what if it is advertised many times and hasn’t happened yet, the twin towers project was ‘practiced’ several times over the perhaps 10 years before the actual strike, so it happened.
They are not on the fast track like everything in the US. They don’t care if they have to wait 10 years to get it right.
Personally, I would rather be warned 50 times and it not happen than not be warned at all and then it happen.
I am anxious to see what all the doubters and complainers have to say about it when it does happen regardless of who is in the White House and the other two Houses in the Government.
It is not just one man, Bush or whoever is up there. There are plenty of Dems and Reps in there that are not doing their jobs and then the Judges too.
If people are not warned and it happens, WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

Gee imagine that, another terror warning just as our gas prices are set to go up to $4 a gallon within the next few weeks. Nothing like taking your mind off of being raped at the pumps like another good ol Al Qaeda warning! Thanks for looking out for us Bush & Company.

Don’t we have enough malls anyway? Sheesh. I guess I’m supposed to go tape up my windows and prepare for Al-Qaeda (CIA) to blow up an empty mall in LA or Chicago? I’m pretty sure that this would be a non-event for our sorry economy. Way to go Bush/Cheney . . . can we have another 4 years? Not sure what we’ll do without all of this “terra”.

SCREW Al Qaeda!

If Al-Qaeda really wants to harm our economy, they’d have to set off a nuclear device, probably a dirty bomb, in one of our ports. If they are going to attack a mall, I’d think it would be some sort of bio/chem attack…not for the higher casualty count, but for the psychological factor…anyway, I don’t shop, but I do live on a hill above the port of LA/Long Beach, so I’m more worried about port security.

This is typical I guess 3000 plus deaths every 5-10 years is an accepable amount of loss to not be an influence for change in the world. When unfortunatley its a loved on affected on a personal level then maybe it will be something to acknowled….Another thing if it did happen you same doubters will be blogging that it was Bush’s fault and his inability to protect the America people..

As a conservative, I would be outraged if America is attacked. I would greatly favor impeachment for allowing the borders to stay open and untold numbers of terrorists to come in via Mexico.

I simply love reading comments from you doubting fools. You’re the same people that go off on Bush (but conspicuously not Clinton) for not doing enough about al Qaeda before 9/11. You’re the same people who claim there is too much secrecy in government. Yet, here, the government releases the information they have in an attempt to keep law enforcement agencies on their toes, and you can only claim it’s a scare tactic.
If you had 2 brain cells to rub together, you’d realize that terrorists are plotting, and the fact they’ve failed to execute a major plot in the USA since 9/11 is irrelevant. How many years passed between the WTC bombings and 9/11? EIGHT YEARS, and most of the government was barely concerned about thwarting them for that entire period.
Use a little common sense… consider what it takes to plan a terrorist attack, and what it takes to uncover the plan and maybe you’ll be less likely to dismiss these reports out-of-hand. It may well be that announcing government knowledge of the threat is enough for the terrorists to postpone or even cancel it. But you’ll never know, and you continue to live in your little dream worlds when there are people out there intent on killing you in any way possible. Will the next 9/11 wake you up? Somehow I doubt it.

I wouldn’t disregard this report. It makes sense. They seem to be changing their strategy on us. They’ve scared us with with one HUGE attack…and now maybe they are plotting something on our actual grounds because something of that nature has never occurred. We’re not accustomed, as some other nations are, to casual attacks on civilian terrains. The last attack was unbelieveable and on a large scale, but not one that planted fear in our hearts to steer us away from our daily routine. Something like this could distrupt the way we function! From going to the grocery store to sending our children to school.

This is simply unbelievable. No, not the threat of an AQ attack but the idiocy of posters here who think this kind of thing is all some conspiracy by “Bush and hsi evil henchmen to further erode civil rights.” You people have simply lost your minds — its time to seek professional help.

You mean we still have shopping malls in this country? Who can afford to buy over-priced stuff at malls? Not me. Perhaps the administration is trying to scare us away from the malls, so we have to shop at Walmart. What a choice.. death by jihadists or death by cheap, Chinese, lead-tainted toys.

I think we should let ALL muslims know that they are either with us or against us and “persuade” them
into NOT harboring these animals while they plan this crap! Those communities know in advance of this stuff as the terrorists surely look to those areas to hide out while making thier plans.

Exactly! Why should we fear Al Qaeda disrupting the economy when we have the Bush Administration spending us into oblivion on Iraq, and the Fed devaluing the dollar to a worthless state.

Over 1 million Americans lost their jobs after 9-11. Every business decided to stop pursuing deals and growth. If our retail establishments are attacked, it will cause a ripple efect. No one will shop, many stores will go out of business. Yes you can shop online, but those retail clerks, and the real estate will be empty. Actions have consequences, and an attack like this would be just enough to throw us into severe recession. Retail relies heavily on holiday shopping. Flying airplanes into buildings, that can happen, but someone wearing a backpack in a mall, detonating a bomb? No, that could never happen, of course not.

…well they need to wait till after the sales

Oh Well. If it happens at least its in urban democrat strongholds. Just ask Rosie or Sean Penn..they’ll tell you..there are no terrorists, just mommies and daddies of little nitro islamofacists.

Jack Bower will NOT be able to save us at the malls…He’s on strike along with the rest of the crew on that Lonny Tunes show…and none of them now have money to shop anyways…hehehehehe

What is more dangerous?
al queda or al gora

You can’t help but notice the plan to attack locations that don’t allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.

But if we don’t shop don’t the terrorists win? What to do? Is this level red?

What are you guys talking about … there are no such thing as terriosts right?????

What a wonderful idea for all-CIA to give the excuse to attack Iran … what perfect timing for the US Govt to blow up its own citizens.

Huh? The “Click Here for Full Text” link takes me to a document that looks like somebody typed it up in Word. Where’s the official document from the FBI/TSA on their letterhead.
Until I see that, this story is considered bogus. Don’t you have anything better to do than fearmonger?

I just dont understand the dems and those liberal College Students…. If we are attacked Bush did to little and impeach him, If not attacked Bush is just starting these stories as scare tactics and should be impeached….
This is crazy….
You people are crazy….
I can only imagine how many of you, like me, lost a dear friend or a family member on Sept, 11.
Would you be singing the same tune…
As the ancient phrase goes…
“K1ll them all and let god sort them out”….
You people better start thinking about yourselves and your families…
It is either them or us.. We are the United Stated of America, the most powerful country on the planet…
Lets stop acting like Wussies…..
Guliani for president!!!!

Anyone who saw the Imaginationland Episodes of South Park knows that all we have to do is call butters and AL GORE! Al Gore will spread awareness and truth about the Man-Bear-Pig threat (he will not read My Pet Goat instead) and butters is a good guy who knows what to do…

If there is an attack it’s because George Bush and the neocons want there to be. They will then make more money for themselves and their oil-tycoon buddies. Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, Rice and Rove will all get some nice checks in the mail after this one. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE!! Don’t you egt it people?!! Bush is a shadow president who set up 9/11. All of these terrorist attacks are not run by Islamists, they are run by Bush and his oil buddies here in America. You neocons need to wake up. We all know that tower 7 is proof there was a conspiracy. It collapsed straight down. Buildings are supposed to fall over like trees, not fall straight down, unless they are blown up by Bushco!! Now they want to shoot up the malls and then make money off it. Oil money. Neocons listen up, we are on to you. And with the internet at our disposul we will decimate the truth!!
By the way, I’m kidding… geez.

If a bomb explodes in an empty mall cause everyone’s down at a homeless shelter foodline, does it make a sound?

“We have no credible, specific information suggesting an imminent attack,” a DHS official said. Yes, we know – but that doesn’t stop you from issuing panic alerts anyway, Chertoff… I suggest you go back to your children’s books and read the one about The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The DHS is a sham to intimidate US citizens and soak them of their tax dollars.

….and the climate is getting warmer, and eggs are bad for you, and red meat will kill you, don’t drink too much, someone may bring a gun to school, priests abuse children, teachers abuse students, bird flu is going to get us all, Staph is killing people like never before, house values are crashing, water is becoming scarce, we’re $9 trillion in debt, the dollar is worth less than the paper it’s printed on. This is all really really bad news and to top it off: HILLARLY CLINTON COULD BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!

Amazing all the Bush bashers come out of the woodwork when they warn of a possible attack. THEY just dont get it.
Thank god these left leaning morons didnt exist during WWII.

I can see it now, when we do get hit again by al-Qaeda you losers will be the first ones to blame Bush & the rest of the government.

It appears to me that all of these never occurring terrorist attacks are making a whole lot of Repubs paranoid and nervous. Be afraid…Get out your guns and kill everyone you don’t recognize! Shoot anyone that looks different from yourselves. Lock your doors and windows, and hide in your “Panic Rooms.” Be sure you do this until after the next election…
Assuming one is even actually going to happen!

I think it’s a shame how the government is bankrupting the nation and NOW..using tactics to keep us from going to shopping malls by putting the fear in us that Alqueda’s planning another attack.
Next thing they’ll claim is beware of Shopping mall Santas because they could potentiall be OSAMA BIN LADEN in disguise to kidnap your american child and make a video of it, surrounded by masked men wearing GOLD rings, necklaces tokin on a bottle of russian vodka.
C’mmon…games up, government was behind september 11, if we let them get away with another attack, we’re finished and those suits sucking up our tax dollars will have won.
I say…FIRE THE LIARS!

Not to mention that alot of nations devalue their own currency as a method for curbing inflation and inviting foreign investors.
Japan is one of those nations that devalues their own currency to keep overseas investors knocking at their doors.

Did anyone stop to think that this story was made up by some think tank. That the goverment developed using the billions of dollars for this war for oil. Just to see how the public will react to such news. Its a phsycological mass mind scare test then a groverment contractor will monitor web sites and blogs like this one. Which will get more of our money which is supposed to be used to fight this war for oil. Better watch out, there watching your response. My response is this. Enjoy life eat, drink make marry. Then have a party to do it again. Caution living on the planet earth causes death. So Move and the danger will disappear, Oh, I forgot we can’t move.

A seriously pathetic lot you are.

Yeah, that’s right. Bush is making it up, the Al-Qeada really don’t want to destroy the West, the threat of terrorism is nothing but a bumper sticker cliche, we’re in a Depression and Homeland Security is making this up, we’re really not in a global war on terror, Saddam was a humanitarian and the 400,000 dead and tortured Iraqi bodies found in mass graves were put there by Halliburton, the New York Times is a patriotic newspaper that hopes this country defeats terrorism, there’s nothing wrong with appeasing radical Islam, 9/11 was orchestrated by George Bush who convinced Sanjaya who fly one of the planes in the WTC, and Islam is a religion of peace.

That mean George Bush…keeping it from raining in the southeast. But I do see a lot of Mexicans shopping in the malls. Maybe they don’t know the economy is bad.

Sorry, it’s hard to take these warnings seriously anymore when you remembered how many times Bush/Rove exploited the ‘color’ alert before the 2004 elections. Most of those warnings were PROVEN to be either totally bogus or of dubious origin…but don’t tell that to the Rush Limbaugh crowd who think our ‘Dear Leader’ Bush is the greatest American President since–cough, cough–Lincoln! Imbeciles! Of course, anything can be waved away by these nitwits by beginning with “Lib this” or “Lib that!”

I have grandchildren too and worry about their future…stories like this do not scare me..what terrifies me is the shredding of our constitution, ignoring the rule of law, loss of individual freedoms, ignoring the will of the people, lying, corrupt, incompetent, power hunry, war mongering
jerks destroying our Democracy…

That mean George Bush…keeping it from raining in the southeast. But I do see a lot of Mexicans shopping in the malls. Maybe they don’t know the economy is bad.

ive always heard ” better safe than sorry ” was the way to go ,and in this instance i kind of agree with that idea. booga booga i know , but even so, to ignore the possible is to empower it even more than close inspection might.
possible/imminent risk(s) of most kinds can be hard,if not impossible to forecast with any real degree of accuracy ,just like hurricanes and snowstorms,(just ask an insurance agent if you dont believe me …) but to ignore even fairly plausible threats to the populace at large ,especially from someone who has shown they can and will attack us, would be somewhat stupid and conveniently oblivious, similar to the cartoon ostrich who, when attacked by the lion, hides his head in the sand and thusly thinks himself alone and safe.
the terrorists,the really well connected international ones anyway, do mean business folks . they have a good amount of $$ and several thousand rabid followers at minimum, AND we have definitely stirred them up quite a bit in the last 5 years or so…

a couple of things about these posts amuse me.

the first is that after 9/11 everyone was complaining that the sketchy and undetailed warning of some kind of attack was not shared.

the second is about the economy. would one of you who claims that the economy is in the dumper, please give me an example? also, please define a good economy so that i’ll know it when i see it.

near as i can tell, the intel community is damned any way you look at it. if they warn of things that might be out there, you call it fear mongering. if they do not warn, you say they are either incompetent or hiding things. i’m sure they will suddenly become better if a democrat is in the whitehouse!

The terrorists have already disrupted our lives and our economy. Look at how many of our soldiers continue to die in Irag and Afghanistan. The terrorists win every time we show excerpts from the latest “bin laden” video or audio tape. And what about the risinggas prices??? They must be laughing every time a warning like this comes out!!!

do you people not realize that there are terrorist in this country right now planning attacks, and all you can do is bash the bush administration for what, trying to make America safer.

Oh please What Now? – what shopping malls “don’t allow citizens to carry concealed weapons”? When was the last time you were frisked at the door of a shopping mall? What laws prevent carrying a weapon at a shopping mall? And how exactly is this vague warning supposed to do anything but invoke terror in people?

Wow. The FBI issues a warning and everyone immediately starts saying “More distractions from the Bush administration.” I bet if there was actually an attack at a mall or something and this warning wasn’t issued the first thing these same people would be saying is “This is the Bush administrations fault, they didn’t know about this and they didn’t warn us!” I guess the administration is damned if they do and damned if they don’t…

No, they’ve been talking about pirates for at LEAST 40 years now and it is NOT since 9/11.
For the persons who said “Great…..perhaps this will stop us from buying toys!” and “Just another reason to shop online” I must say that your ignorance is overwhelming. What in the world does this have to do with hshopping online, so you think that online suppliers have someplace different that they source their goods from?! Toy’s person (Washington DA): If you believe this then I want to have you prosecute me in your town because you’re truly a fool!

Wow. The FBI issues a warning and everyone immediately starts saying “More distractions from the Bush administration.” I bet if there was actually an attack at a mall or something and this warning wasn’t issued the first thing these same people would be saying is “This is the Bush administrations fault, they didn’t know about this and they didn’t warn us!” I guess the administration is damned if they do and damned if they don’t…

hi, i am a moron…i agree with everyone’s post…

This forum has about covered it all so far.
I am in a pensive mood so I’ll ask this; since we’ve spent over a half-trillion taxpayers’ dollars on the Middle East War, why are we still paying $3.00+ for gasoline (and who knows how much for heating oil this winter)?
Isn’t it time for the Afghanistans and Iraqis to REPAY the United States SOMETHING?
N.B. This next sentence is NOT meant to be insensitive. We keep ploughing money in for their protection but nothing comes out of the Middle East, except perhaps aluminum coffins.
A few million barrels of oil would be a good start, but I fear that just as France, England, and the other overrun countries refused to reimburse the U.S., no one is going to repay the American taxpayer anything for the military services rendered thus far.
And personally, I think that is an integral part of what is turning the U.S. citizenry against the war.
Americans are waiting with bated breath to witness a denouement in the White House and on Capitol Hill.
“Though still only a prospect on the horizon, this, I think, could well be the next revolution. What a denouement if it is! — Julian Barbour, The End of Time.”
…Just One Man’s Opinion

I think the apropo statement here is that China = Al Qaeda.
Good going FBI, you guys are days behind the ball, incompetent fools.

Some people have their heads so far in the sand it’s scary.
The nutball Islamists are not stupid. Reference the planning and research to pull off 9/11/01. They are very patient and most people just want to pretend everything is ok (picture a guy with fingers in ears saying,”La-La-La-La-La I’m not listening”). But when the big bad terrorist shows up the wimps want to hide behind the ‘paranoid’ people who remained vigilant and prepared.
Stand ready sheepdogs.

The FBI does not know if the threat is real? Then why put it out in the first place, besides to cover ones butt!
This is counterterrorism? Time to to get counterterrorism in the hands of real professionsals and political hacks….

Has anyone gone to a shopping mall lately? Most of them look like deserted ghost towns. I don’t think they would inflict much damage by attacking a shopping center…

One reason to heed this warning: it would appear that AQ is targetting places where private gun ownership and the chance of encountering an armed citizen, licensed to carry, is minimal….

Our economy (considering we are a country at war) is doing amazing. But I see that those blinded by their leftist goggles can’t seem to understand the facts.
They love to talk about President Bush’s approval ratings and yet fail to state how the Democratic congress’s are the same or worst.

ballocks. what a load of rubbish.

I love all the morons on here claiming that this is just an attempt by the government to scare Americans and distract us from other issues. They are the same geniuses who gripe and complain every time the government tries to withhold information that is classified or sensitive. It’s just more hypocrisy from the left.

Interesting that the warning is specifically for shopping Malls… That obviously leaves WalMart out of the threat level… just like Bush/Cheney to send out a warning scaring us into all shopping at Walmart for cheap and dangerous Chinese products…suddenly this is all beginning to make Republican sense…hehehehe:):)

What happens if they actually do hit a mall? All of you and the libs would be all over Bush and the FBI for not releasing this information to the public.

The only think we.. uh.. have to fear, is.. uh.. not enough fear!
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The only reason that they’re doing this is so that they can install surveillance cameras in the changing rooms, then you can add carpal tunnel to Cheney’s list of ailments.

I won’t live in fear…but I also don’t want to be blind to possibilities either. I’d rather have a warning that doesn’t materialize than be caught unaware. One poster stated it best…you needn’t worry unless your enemy REALLY wants to kill you. The AQ is our enemy and they REALLY want to kill us. Has anybody ever given it a thought that maybe we haven’t had a replica of 9/11 because of all these warnings? Gee…wonder if prior knowledge and lack of attack have anything to do with each other?

If they bomb a single mall in the USA….
I want us to “take out”,
Iran, Iraq, Afganistan, and Pakistan in one quick blow…..YES ALL OF THEM..

Dude, whatever…who do you know sends warning about attacks? If you get car jacked or murdered, do you receive a video tape telling you its going to happen?

A few questions to my liberal conspiratory friends:
What US president was in power when the 9/11 hijackers took their flight classes?
Did AQ vote in the 2000 Florida elections?
Did AQ rig the Supreme Court in 2000 to ensure Bush was president?
That’s a pretty big conspiracy.
Pssssstt….They want to kill us no matter who is in power.

Oh Gawd — is this a Bushie claim !! he didn’t get his way so let’s cry “wolf”— I am so sick of the scaries

Don’t Panic remain alert and vigilant. Remember there are no Al Qaeda under our beds as long as we keep guns under our pillows and trust no one.
Remember also your children are under a bigger threat from being run over by a car than been a victim of terrorism.
Meanwhile it won’t do any harm to review your families emergency plan in the case there is an earthquake, hurricane, bushfire, flooding, tornado, mudslide, volcanic eruption, tv writers strike, train crash including dangerous chemicals, oil refinery explosion, shipwreck, motorway pileup, terrorist attack.
Hang loose everyone if it is going to happen it will happen if it doesn’t, which is most likely then what is the point in worrying.

There will be no major attacks until Hillary or another left wing liberal is elected. Then terrorists will start a wave of terror bombings of prime American targets. It won’t be shopping malls but more than likely oil refineries or chemical plants to cripple America’s economy. They know that liberals are terrorist sympathizers who will do little to prevent or punish terrorists.

The only think we.. uh.. have to fear, is.. uh.. not enough fear!
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Those Mexicans aren’t “SHOPPING” in the malls, they are cleaning the waste baskets, floors, and restrooms. Open your eyes…Also, people are filling those SUVs with credit cards…the American Dream is OVER, the collapse will happen with the next attack, by the ones who are planning it…..

The Bush admin is just creating a scapegoat for the slumping sales at retailers… they need someone to blame the slumping retail sales on, IMO.

I’d rather take it to the enemy in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran than cut, run, surrender, appease, cower, and beg for mercy like the Neo-Comms Hitlery Clinton, Nazi Pelosi, and Harry Red… What part of jihad don’t you understand?

Let’s blame that idiot Bush for everything: the economy, the hurricanes, the healthcare system, the weather, the dumbing down of our kids, the fattening up of our kids. .. and son on and so on.
But before that, let’s give some of our educationally challenged fellow Americans a simple lesson in economics, basic science, civics, the US Constitution, and some real life hardships. Oh wait, since most of these folks can’t read or write properly, how would they read all of these simple lessons? Let’s start at kindergarten first.
Other than that, damn that Bush! Sitting in his White House messing w/ those buttons that bring the world all kinds of problems and calamities.

Guess that must mean we should do our shopping online this holiday season.

“it cant happen??” it couldnt either at LAX when two muslims shot up the el al counter and were killed by musaad agents ,or whenever a muslims runs people over with a vehicle-yale university,,chanting allah ackbar,,oh yes,,each time its lone nuts or a group working together. Good luck at those crowded malls,easy to conceal something under a coat, Believe there are 12 million and growing muslims in the country already.

Attention LA & Chicago mall shoppers: Stay out of the malls during the holidays. All others: continue shopping.

If there is another attack, it will be ordered out by the same people who ordered 9/11.

i smell an inside job and martial law comming just in time for the elections.

Yes, get us all scared for the holidays with shopping and all that. Make it fun. What are we supposed to do about it? It’s their job to protect us.

A few simple question… What is the sense of spending billions of dollars on defense, being the so-called only super-power in the world and yet we can’t stop a bunch of losers with box cutters?
Can a bunch of people thousands of miles away, with no standing army, limited modern weaponry, really destory America?
Does Israel (easily one of if not the foremost experts in Terror) broadcast Terror alerts?
Isn’t it strange that you are told about this plan to attack American interests and in the next breath you are told to go about your life normally?
Finally, who doesn’t know that people want to hurt America and American interests? How is this news?

Is this their way of getting attention?
Bin Laden needs NEW clothes…

I prey to god that even if an attack happens you all still act like Americans and go about your lives not in fear but as supporters of capitalism, as the only thing that can stop the natural human instinct is fear.
By the way: Washington DA’s comment is so classic and unbelievably true! It took me two months after 9/11 to realize this (by then the patriot act was already in play).

I’m simply amazed by the number of idiots, crackpots, and conspiracy theorists that’ve responded to this news item.
Are you all really so blinded by hatred and political partisanship that you can’t accept the fact that there really ARE people in the world who want to kill us?
Those people don’t care what political bent you hold, or which candidate you voted for. Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal … it doesn’t matter. They just want you dead.
When and if our society DOES collapse, blame for it will be laid squarely at YOUR feet. Idiots.

“We have no credible, specific information suggesting an imminent attack,” a DHS official said.’ Well why are you giving out non-credible information. More Bush run up the flag scare tactics. If we get attacked we get attacked, that is the price we pay, and many others have paid with their lives for our “freedoms” which Bush and the Republicans try and take away, like the Military Commissions Act of 2006! When is Congress going to get off their A__ and repeal this unconstitutional law. Parts have already been struck down by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Bush should not have a get out of jail free card for his violations of the Geneva Conventions and his secret CIA Torture camps set up in places like Poland! Perhaps when we learn to quit pi__ing people off then we wont have to worry so much about terrorist. What we have right now is a poster boy for the recruitment of terrorist sitting in the White House! Time for him to go as well!

Amid all the Bush-Bum-kissers’ bashing of liberals, I notice they seem to miss one very crucial question–If we are indeed attacked, doesn’t that make what Bush has been bleeting about every time someone questions the war in Iraq with “We’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here” a bunch of bull*?
Oh, but I guess if you’re actually a simpleton in the 24% of redneck America that still think Bushie’s doing a ‘heckuva job’, then I guess you’ve got to find ANY reason to complain about liberals because everything they said about Bush being a disaster for our country was right and all you pinheads can do is b*tch because liberals don’t share your view of the world or your psychotic hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton!

What many of those who don’t believe the threat is real have ignored is the words from the terrorists themselves! They, The terrorists, have said many times how they are planning on destroying America and Israel by any means necessary. They have also said from their own mouths that they will not rest until “everyone” converts to Islam. You can blame Bush or whoever in DC. It doesn’t matter!!! Listen to the actual words of the terrorists themselves. Just as it has pointed out in posts here, it’s a no win situation for the Feds. If they don’t warn us they will be blamed for being secretive and not providing information when we are attacked. If they do tell us then it’s just fearing mongoring. Common sense must prevail. PREPAREDNESS IS NOT AN OPTION!

You’re all missing the REAL reason
Bush and Cheney outsource torture:
They NEED the FALSE ‘Confessions’ — Forced LIES — to prop up their Official Lie 9/11 cover story that
‘Al Qaeda did it’, when THEY did it.
The REAL reason Bush and Cheney, and the new about-to-be AG Mukasey, won’t say waterboarding — which WE held as a war crime in WW II –
is torture is because THEY’VE ALREADY waterboarded — tortured — alleged 9/11 ‘mastermind’ Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (‘KSM’) to get him to ‘confess’ to 9/11, which would have to be THROWN OUT of the big
‘show trial’ of KSM they’ve got planned for just before the 2008 election, and REAL evidence — which includes THEIR OWN COMPLICITY and that of the likely Republican candidate Giuliani — would pour out like a dam breaking.
ALL OF THIS — the torture, the ‘outsourcing’ of torture, the renditions, even the attempt to give retroactive immunity to telecoms for enabling their illegal warrantless
NSA wiretaps — is about Bush and Cheney desperately trying to prop up The Official LIE of 9/11, belief in which has enabled every Evil they’ve done since. Remember, they ‘justify’ the illegal NSA warrantless wiretap program as an alleged defense ‘in response to’ — and thus only,
they claim, initiated AFTER — 9/11.
But the whole world knows that this, too, is a Huge Lie: The whole world knows that the NSA tapped the PRE-9/11 calls of KSM himself talking with lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, on Sept. TENTH. And you can be sure
that one PRE-9/11 tap WASN’T the first PRE-9/11 warrantless phone tap of the alleged 9/11 ‘mastermind’ KSM and other of the Official 9/11 Story conspirators by Bush, Cheney and then-NSA head Hayden, who now heads the very agency that did and does
the renditions to torture, the CIA.
That is, because of their PRE-9/11 warrantless taps of KSM, Atta, etc., Bush, Cheney and Hayden knew EVERY
DETAIL of the pending 9/11 attack,
as detailed in the 11-page attachment to the famous Aug. 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the U.S.’ that HAS STILL NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC. ALL of this is about the REAL official perpetrators of 9/11 desperately trying to hide the fact that they used illegal warrantless taps OF KSM and others to learn the details of the coming attacks, ENSURED they would be allowed to happen spectacularly, and that they then propped up the 9/11 Official Story Legend with forced-lie ‘confessions’ by the ‘mastermind’ KSM they ‘allowed’ to be TORTURED into ‘confessing’ to 9/11 by waterboarding. Like O.J., Bush, Cheney and Hayden are ‘still looking for the real terrorists’ of the Sept. 11 attacks. And so should ALL of You Be.

Hey, Non Believer,
YES, they do broadcast terror alerts in Israel. They even send them out via text message to the cell phones of those who opt to receive them.
Can a bunch of people thousands of miles away really destroy America? Yes, I suppose we could if we allowed it to happen. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out.
Isn’t it strange we’re told about a potential attack plan and then told to go on with our lives? No. It’s not strange.

Did the FBI say anything about antique malls?

These warnings are very funny, indeed. There is no honor by the FBI or CIA in scaring us – unarmed civilians.
You get the billions to keep us safe. If you can not, quit, others will. Stop the stupidity.

The number of left wing wack jobs writing posts on here is amazing.

All though there has been a lull in major events on our soil no one should let down his or her guard – I suspect the next event will be in a place we least expect… be sure the enemy will give misleading information even communities like Yakima washington where I live should not rest easy …
the best prevention is a vigilant and aware public…

I encourage everyone to get a gun, ammo, and a permit to carry. Let’s show them what it means to have freedom.

lol brook,took dense old me a while to get that one!!
;D

Remember the “boy that cried wolf”…
the old saying about the boy that cries “the wolf is here and
is going to eat me.” the boy said it three times…on the third time…people didn’t believe it and he got eaten. I don’t believe this crap for one second. Anyway, you are more likely to die at the hands of a criminal in your own community or a mad trucker on the road who wants to crush your car to smitherens than these “so called al queda terrorists”. Secure the damn borders, put a v-chip in everyone coming into America by plane or ship…and you’d still have homegrown terrorists…and crime and whatever other problems…natural, hurricane, or man-made.
enough of this fear mongering…just live your lives people!!!
the only thing you have to fear is fear itself…as FDR (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said). Or take
the quote of President John F. Kennedy,
“ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”.

“I wonder why this hasn’t happened already…”!!!
To the person who said this: Do you REALLY wonder? Isn’t it obvious?
“Al Qaeda” is an illusion and the “war on Terror” is a con. It’s all designed, a la 1984, to hypnotize the sheeple into fear and submission.
Iran, the Great Satan, does tons of business with Dick Cheney’s company, halliburton. Look it up. Don Rumsfeld was on the board of directors of ABB, a Swiss firm that sold nuclear rods to North Korea, another “axis of evil” client. Look it up.
They are playing us for suckers (or trying to). There is really no such thing as “Al Qaeda”; it is just a term applied loosely to anyone the government feels like persecuting.

Calm down, people! Al Qaeda is hardly the biggest threat this country has faced. In the scope of US history, Al Qaeda sits pretty low on the list of domestic dangers. They’ve done some damage, true. And I agree they could do lots more.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Remember the Soviet Union? WWII Japan? Hitler? We were quite capable of fending off their ARMIES. Al Qaeda has no army; it has FOLLOWERS. There’s a big difference. Followers have to be goaded into sacrifice by the leaders of a movement exploiting things like poverty and political dissatisfaction.
They cannot invade en masse to attack this country. The best way to defend ourselves is to seal up the borders, maintain a strong national defense, and stop meddling in all these places around the world. Our government helps to create those “followers” by sticking its nose in other countries’ business.

rider237, my thoughts exactly – thanks for being a voice of reason here…

George Bush , George Bush….its like…Marcia, Marcia, Marcia…….get a life….hey..my toilet wont flush…must be George Bush’s fault…….you people need to get a life. Read your history. This fight would be going on with or without George Bush….and Dont forget…Clinton helt the terrorist out….had a chance to get Bin Laden..but didnt…..stand up America…get away from these left coast freaks…….remember…these people with opinions want the words “mom and dad” taken out of our schools…..you know….so we can call are parents…”parent #1 and parent #2″…give me a break you liberal freaks…and we give you a right to vote. France now makes your sense than you guys…..freaks!

If Al Queda REALLY wants to disrupt our economy, they will help elect more Republicans!

Well I for one dont believe it. every time you turn around they are saying “Al Qaeda
will do this and “Al Qaeda will do that. To be honest I feel “Al Qaeda is really winning any war because anytime they say something the government tells us they are going to do this and do that and all it does is make some people nervous and that is what “Al Qaeda wants to do make us nervous.

I can’t believe theirs still Americans that try to defend BushCo… or are they really Americans?

“democrats are the ones that want to live free” that was the best laugh of the day.

actually, you do better to use the terms liberal and conservative.

make a list of all the intrusions into our personal lives; gun control, parenting, religion, smoking, seat belts,taxes, you name it. look and see who has acted to restrict our personal freedoms….all for the greater good. you’ll find it’s the liberals, usually at the state and local level. when we vote against their programs, they go around us and legislate, or drag us through the courts. the will of the people does not matter to liberals. after all, they know what is best for us!

right now, it’s best for us to focus on nasty rich people who don’t pay enough in taxes, and nasty conservatives who what to scare us. there are no bad guys out there….the bad guys are in the white house!

Hey everyone,
Everyone who speaks of conspiracy theories is a moron. How dumb must you be to believe that Bush and Cheney were behind 9/11. These morons want us dead, Bush and Cheney don’t. So I think it is time for you theorist morons to cut the chord and move out of your parent’s basement and get out into the real world.
Thanks,
Mad Mike

God you Bush haters are stupid people. I understand why the writers of the Constitution didn’t make this a democracy… BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE TOO IGNORANT TO MAKE INFORMED JUDGEMENTS !!

Good lord, look at the pathetic Bush supporters! YOU people are the real threat to this country and its democracy and not a bunch fanatics hiding powerless in the caves of Afghanistan! It is YOU that would use another terrorist attack as an excuse to suspend our Constitution and applaud making Bush ‘President’ indefinitely because even now you fools can’t face reality that you’ve all been had by Bush all along. Your kids are dying needlessly in Iraq; your dollar’s worth nothing anymore; you’ll soon be choosing between whether to eat, heat your homes or put $4.00 a gallon gas in your pick-ups and all because you let your fears and bigotry. Brave Americans died to preserve our democracy for generations, while you cowards would give it up in a day and crown Bush your emperor! Shame on you all, you cowards and traitors!

I ain’t skeerd of no terrorist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Hildabeast, maybe, but terrorist, NO.

“Can a bunch of people thousands of miles away, with no standing army, limited modern weaponry, really destroy America?”
No. Most of us have got our fear under control and realize that simple fact. That is why George “BOO!” Bush has lost his audience.
Germany and Japan were actual threats. They had the infrastructure, the numbers, and the money (as proven) to take over other countries, militarily. That was a war, this is not. There are some very, very dangerous groups though and I thank everyone in law enforcement for what they are doing to keep us safe. It is mainly a law enforcement issue. When folks such as the Talaban actually take over areas, then it was and will be right and productive to take military action. What was this Iraq thing — wow, what a mistake that was — who the hell did that and can we fire them?

rider 237: actually most of the personal intrusion laws you cite were passed by both liberals and conservatives “to keep you safe”.
Yes conservatives believe in rugged individualism as long as it protects corporations and the military/industrial complex at the expense of the common man.
Reagan did more than Al-Aqaeda to damage the US economy by fast tracking elimination of the protections that were put in place to preserve living wages for Americans and regulate the industries including Big Pharma and Health Care so that the American worker could survive & prosper.
What was Reagan’s legacy? Free Trade, Outsourcing, Moving Factories Overseas, Deregulation, Deficit Spending, Trickle Down Economics, strengthening the Military/Industrial Complex, and Union Busting. We are now reaping what he, teh Bushes, & Clinton sowed. Nice!

Hey Barbara Honegger, I didn’t know you worked for the CIA with all the knowledge you have on how 911 happened. I hope you weren’t covert like Valerie, I’d hate to have you blame Cheney for outing you, and you writing a book??? Jeez take your medicine and go to sleep, you’re a liberal nutt bar!!!

Wow, you are all idiots.

FEAR MONGERING!!??
Who brought up Global Warming??!

Dear Moose,
Right On baby1 Right on…

If al Qaeda or anyone else for that matter wanted to disrupt (temporarily) the US economy it could do so with relative ease and without the needless killing of innocent people. For example, there are very large model rockets which can be purchased with relative ease. These rockets leave a very distinct smoke trail similar in appearance to that of a surface to air missile. Now let’s say just prior to the holiday season terrorists simultaneously launched one or two of these rockets in the vicinity of a few major airports for all to see, how long do you think it would be before “all flights” were grounded while the authorities tried to figure out if it was a surface to air missile attack or not? In the meantime, the terrorists send a message to the media, “we missed, this time, but we won’t miss the next time!” Flights would be cancelled nationwide and the economic ripple effect would be felt for months.
I’m not suggesting there is not a threat out there but I question at a time we as a nation are so divided on the war in Iraq and our involvement in the Middle East why al Qaeda would want attack us here at home and give the American people a reason to come together as one (like we did immediately after 9-11). Doesn’t make sense to me.

chase harrington = doofus
do you actually read the newspaper chase? really, read the news and tell me how all the 2 million or so folks whose houses were foreclosed on lately feel? is it really all their fault the cost of living is sky high and conversely their wages continue to stagnate , both situations caused in large part by ignorant republican economic policies that make the rich richer while ignoring pressing social and economic responsibilities that are the sworn duty of government to uphold. i think they are just dupes who are getting taken to the cleaners by some slick snake oil salesmen/carpet baggers myself.
the min wage bill that was just past was 10 years overdue, the min wage still isnt nearly at a living wage level for anywhere in the usa . dont crow about that as any kind of victory for anyone except the illegal aliens who mostly make said sub-human wage.
and chase, most americans dont want the government to take care of them, but everyone DOES expect some action and substantive improvements in their day to day lives, thats what a government is for. we all pay taxes specifically to do just that. however, i dont think many peoples’ lives are better today under the republican watch,and i would daresay the polls prove me and my opinion to be 110% correct in this particular instance.

keep your comments short and to the point; don’t write a book

Rumors released by Amazon dot coooooommmmmmmm (to the commercial tune) just kidding. I agree with the non-looney, non-conspiracy people on this board…if the FBI didn’t say anything and something happened, then it would be, “Why didn’t they say anything when they knew?”
FYI, Bush and the gov don’t have to hype it up, just listen for yourselves what AQ and OBL are saying. Now imagine yourself in a position of political power (I know its hard for some of you) and you receive briefings every day on new threats, bombers in Iraq, non-progress on the diplomacy with Iran, complacency of European countries to let Iran get the bomb and get bombed themselves. What would you do? (I know the answer already, look to Hilary, hold hands and sing for world peace.)
Somebody has to do the dirty work or we (yes you and I from civilized nations) will all end up either dead (at the receiving end of an AQ n-bomb) or at the mercy of crooked countries like Russia or China. Keep telling yourselves that the only thing wrong in the world is that the hollywood Clintons are not back in power.

Sounds like the FBI is finally catching up on it’s reading. This is all out of a Tom Clancy book. Maybe they should reread some Ludlum and Fleming as well.
Better yet just go straight to Stephen King since they just want to keep us scared anyway.

Nothing but a load of crap to try to scare us into supporting the Republican agenda.
I won’t believe ANY news reports from ABC/Disney!

Kent: You are implying with your scenario that the AQ think like Americans do. I don’t believe they do. What you suggest sounds like a bully threatening a weakling…when everybody knows bullies do not make good on threats. If the AQ has S-to-A missles, they wouldn’t bother with a warning shot.

Richard Clark wrote an essay about this a while ago. It was a look back from 10 or so years in the future that described the attacks and the Govt’s reactions to it.
This chatter sounds like a hoax to me. They have found that we will react just as strongly to threats as we will to an actual attack, and threats are much cheaper and easier to pull off.

Kent said—
If al Qaeda or anyone else for that matter wanted to disrupt (temporarily) the US economy it could do so with relative ease and without the needless killing of innocent people
Here is the rub Kent,
The radical muslim does not care so much WHO he is killing, just THAT he is killing.
So, you think you are an ‘innocent person’??

All of you that say no one will be shopping because we have no money. Are you kidding? Talk about disinformation. The ONLY people hurting right now are the people losing their homes because they were idiots and got in over their head. Sorry. In fact, VERY VERY FEW people are hurting right now. All is good – come out and play. America is doing very well, thank you. 95% of this American’s are BETTER OFF than 5 years ago, and 2 years ago, and last year.

This is so typical, it’s just another scheme to build some sort of trust or faith in the government. If it doesn’t happen, then it can be automatically attributed to their success. If it does happen, then what? Which comes to the point, if the government knows that there will be a terrorist attack why would they admit to any knowledge about it? If it actually does happen, i.e. they are unable to thwart it, then even the most moronic citizen will likely see the ineptness (God, I at least hope). If something is going to happen, don’t count on hearing about it from CBS news.

YUP, its almost thanksgiving and here we are getting our ANNUAL “unsubstantiated Al Qaeda is going to attack shopping malls” terror alert.
its become a holiday given that we begin to get hit with these ‘unsubstantiated’ terror alerts right around the time BUSH demands billions and billions more tax dollars for his ‘war on terra’
“hey what did you get for Christmas”
“all I got was this unsubstantiated terra warning”
The BLOTTER should be ashamed of itself for playing this tired old loyal bushie game yet again!

Everyone knows that American politics are nothing more than theatre but 21st century American politics are the theatre of the absurd. The comments on this threat would be hilarious if they weren’t made in all seriousness. You people are all morons and you will be utterly destroyed because of your insanity.

“For those of you who also believe that the United States of America is behind the murder of it’s own citizens, you’re a traitor…”
The Civil War (USA killed alot of Americans), the Lusitania (carried arms), USS Liberty (no retaliation, massive coverup), Gulf of Tonkin (now declassified), the Clinton Murders (just speculation…), Gary Condit (no speculation), OKC Bombing (very fuzzy), Waco Massacre(ATF war), etc., etc., etc.
I don’t know the truth behind all of these, but I have good reasons to be skeptical.
Fortunately the Chinese made American flag is a little too thin, if you look closely, you can sort of see what is going on behind it.

I’m more afraid of the Anti American liberal Democrats than I am of Terrorists. Hillary, Obama, Murtha, Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden, Kucinich, Dodd and the Hollywood Left Wing commies scare me.

So tell me why did it take so long to come up with this load of manure? OOOOH I’m so scared I guess I’ll just have to keep working so I can get to a Mall to buy some type of usless junk from China that doesn’t work or will kill me in some way. I’ll have to get gas first though. Just trying to find a parking space will burn up about a half a tank. So now that I spent all that money at the pump. That dim wit in the white house should be able to enjoy his christmas since He’ll get a kick back from his arab freinds in the middle east. I would even bet that he’d get a kick back from china also. Of course thats only if I buy some type of cheap junk that works once from them. I can’t really say what I’d like to do due to the fact that the language would probably ban me from this web site so I’ll stop.

Hey Frank,
Doofus and I think you should spend more time at the malls. You are two ideas above a possum.

so what are we to do, shop Walmart and get crap from china? were screwed any way you go.

Muslims threatening too murder people. Nothing new. Is any one suprised at this ?

Don – exactly what color is the sky on the planet where you live?

To all those who keep saying the economy is on the rocks or that no one has nay money sure doen’t follow the economic news. The last 5 years has been a better economy and lower unemployment rate that the Clinton administration. Stock market all time high, housing all time low, inflation low, gasoline adjusted for inflation at the same price as the 1970′s. You think this economy is bad just wait if a Democrat wins the WH, increase taxes and a major recession. Then another repulican will get elected (just like reagan or Bush II) and lower taxes and the economy will come out of the recession and start boomin just in time for all the democrats to again say The economy Sucks!” Hey Democrats – read the WSJ every now and then

It would be more convincing if the link to “actual FBI report” was authentic.It’s not even a good fake.

I’m not worried. I’ve still got a large supply of duct tape and plastic wrap in my basement.

I can not believe that a liberal would have the nerve to attack someone based on approval ratings…Wow looks at Pelosi’s and your Dem Congress and Senate’s Ratings. They are the LOWEST IN THE HISTORY OF CONGRESS…thats right folks the works ever..ever flipping ever…Much lower then Bush’s/…..so ill slow down for you….liberal dems pull a vietnam and get half the approval rating the president does…and you think the war is unpopular…or maybe whats unpopular is radical left wing nut jobs.

Liberal cowards, don’t worry..when hillary and her husband come back into power, they will pull the U.S. back into the hole in the ground they had us in all throughout hillbilly billy’s presidency. KKKlinton is DIRECTLY responsible for the condition all you liberals whine about. He never had the guts to confront the reality of this new war. Remember the first WTC bombing? what did he do about it? He was gutless, just like all the gutless liberals in Europe and U.S. Anyone who doesn’t have the courage to face the islamo-facist threat, better prey they are muslim, straight, and god-fearing (laughs as all liberals go scurrying)

Your all correct the government is trying to coral us again in our thinking. Wrong!!! What percent of GDP is spent in the holiday season. 40% you flippin idiots. If you wanted to rock an economy scare american out of the malls and watch the jobs drop. Okay now put your heads back in the sands, why try being preventive??? Please do not breed. Thanks

We all know only the God fearing Republicans can cave us from this impending doom. Of course the Democrats dont care about this because they are Godless commies in disguise. In fact, the terrorist are not only targeting malls, they are targeting amusement parks too, so call off that Disney vacation. In fact, the only real way to keep them from attacking is to bury your head in the sand so you don’t know they are here already. At least the president has learned something from history. He is the biggest practitioner of fear mongering since the Nazi party had Goebbels. You can’t trust a Republican further than their last mens room tryst. Bush has done more long term harm to the US than any terrorist could possible have done. It will take generations to undo the damage he and his cronies accomplished.

Oh good. Now, maybe more of that mysterious rising carbon dioxide will be formed and the world can heat up some more so more of that special ice at the poles can melt when the temp goes UP to 18 degrees from 17.5 degrees. Then everyone can blame the government for that too…
Sheesh people! Get a life!

Think this might convince Bush that we need to fortify our borders and plant people in the mosques where they practice this religion of peace?
I do not think these pandering policians will do ANYTHING until there is a catastrophe. We have none with forthought. It will be management by crisis as usual.
How’s that “gut feeling” Mr Cherdoff.
Let’s be careful; we don’t want to offend CAIR or the ACLU.

we must take them thar fight to the enemy! that’s it! let’s give all our money to halliburton so they can take the fight to the enemy!!! yeah, i’m a weakling who doesn’t think for myself so we gotta take the fight to the enemy!! keep saying it because that’s the only answer my little brain can come up with- take the fight to the enemy!!!! deeeerrrpp..

Sorry George, not buying it this time. We’ve heard “Wolf! Wolf!” Too many So times now. If anything does happen, rest assured it’s NOT Al Qaeda, but some shadow agency trying to get the peasants in line.
We the American people have had enough. Al Queda is gonna attack malls and the Mexico border is STILL wide open? Who’s fault is that George? The American people have spoken on this issue. SECURE THE BORDERS!!!
Instead you choose to frighten your people, ignore their demands and strip away liberty.
Al Queda, indeed.

We got warned by our government why do you Libs think its all about the election ? We got warned… take it seriously … its not political … keep an eye out, there’s sick Muslim extremists who take your money everyday and who at night meet and plan while you think it’s all cooked up by some republicans. Get ready … people want to kill us … you were warned … and you’ll be warned again if there’s a democrat in office God help us … wake up ! It’s a religious war …

What a helpful news media. When the government issues a warning they call it scare mongering. When they don’t and something happens, they blame them after the fact. The real enemy are the parasites on society that make terrorism possible: liberals and journalists.

The press really is funny. Today the NY Times reported on Al Qaeda fleeing Baghdad, except they put it on page 19, and did not identify AlQaeda in the headlines…they called it a “militant group.” Almost like they don’t want you to know that America is besting AlQaeda.
But then, you see a story like this, and the headline isn’t “militant group threatens malls,” it’s “AlQaeda” threatens malls. Almost like the press wants to play up the threats…but not the victories.
I blame George Bush, obviously.

“OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO STAND TOGETHER AND BE STRONG,JUST LIKE WE SEEMED TO BE AFTER 9/11.”
Our country would have stood together and the world would have stood with us if we hadn’t had a rotten President – who divided, not United – and who enraged the entire world with his bogus war on the wrong country (Saudi Arabia, Bush’s friend, sent the terrorists.)

Shopping malls! Who would have ever suspected that terrorists might strike there…unless you watch 24…or Dawn of the Dead. And all you bleeding hearts say waterboarding isn’t getting us any actionable intelligence.

Dave J….absolutely perfect analogy !!!!

Thinking that the repubs or the dems is going to save you will be a downfall. They are all controlled by the same special interest groups, lobbyists and political (in)action committees. As far as terrorist attacks, I am about as worried about them as I am about this past record hurricane season full of non-existent storms. Scaremongering comes from both sides of the fence and none of them work to make it better.
IMHO

Hey Gabacho:
The reason that they won’t do those intelligent things that happened are for the same reasons we didn’t have air marshalls BEFORE 9-11. It will take another 9-11 to get these IDIOTS to understand that we are in danger. But rather than wise up, they will blame the bombing on another conspiracy theory.
I don’t know if they will ever open their eyes to the danger until we parallel Israel in how we live our day-to-day lives.
They can kill our soldiers, bomb our malls, fly planes into our buildings full of innocent people and some how, some way, it will be our fault.
I just don’t get it.

the number of right/left wing wack jobs posting on here is amazing.

Most of you morons do not deserve to live in America. All you do is look for things to “attack” her. We do not have to worry about an enemy…it is within.
It is pathetic. You ought to get out of the USA and look around..and you will kiss the ground we stand on. God Bless America..

Several attacks have already been stopped. But, you liberals say nothing about that. Part of me wishes Al-qaada would succeed and do it by coming through the Mexico border. This may be the only way we get serious about closing our borders to illegals. If we do not close them soon, we will be overrun with illegals. if you will look at statistics by many, you will find out 14 million jobs in Texas, almost one million are filled by illegals. Many of these were good paying jobs! Texas will seen be “little Mexico” and be more then 50% Mexican. When this happens, we will soon have the same problems that are in Mexico. Want to solve health care, education, unemployment, and poverty? Close the borders! This will provide more jobs, raise wages, more will be able to by insurance, billions will be saved by not providing social services to illegals, and the education of American kids will get better, and there will be a lot less drugs in the U.S. Be American, and tell your senator you want the borders closed! Be American. We cannot save all the world. Mexico’s problem is due to corruption. If we do not allow Mexico to send us their problems, they will be forced to fix them.

After reading the above blogs I am reminded why I am a Republican. God help the USA if the Dems win in 2008. The Democrats have done nothing but criticize the Bush adm since 9/12. I often wonder just how Kerry or Gore would have handled things after the attack. Gone and held negotiations with a culture that has hated western civilization for over a thousand years? How can you hold discussions with people whose culture and minds are still in the stone age?
All you leftists disgust me.

for anyone like FreedomLover there who is thinking there will be any sort of a republican in the white house for the next 12 years or so …
i have a bridge to sell you!!
for the record, republican days in the oval office are going to be uber rare for a loooooong time so get used to it.

I take it from the comments here that America is no longer afraid. Guess terror threats no longer work.

steve ,to retort to your statement(s) ; when is the last time you read barrons? fyi so many big companies have declared bankruptcy and run with the investors’ (and workers’) money (that the taxpayer,via the fdic,has to repay stevo lad…) that the savvy working man today definitely knows better than to trust the avg employer for any sort of job security or promises for the future , he knows they will hire and move their entire operations where labor is the cheapest and restrictive labor and environmental (read; ethical) laws are in not in place ( read; china/india/sudan etc) thanks to republican crafted “laws” that allow the carpetbagging republicans and their unceasingly lobbying big business buddies to get rich at everyone elses expense ( eg; out of control foreign trade deficit/imbalance)and health( eg; crappy dangerous chinese imported junk that makes the importers huge profits…) ,but the blue collar working man who wants to get ahead today has slimmer job choices than ever because of the elitist republican slave labor job making scheme,where 95% of the population fights over jobs cleaning toilets and mowing yards for the 5% elite/rich.
—sigh—

I’ve never labeled myself and objectively take in my news from many sources and find myself tunning into FOX to understand the neo-con madness. quite entertaing if you ask me. Please label me so I vote accordingly.

Do not watch Air Bud, it is disturbing.

Does this mean some stupid security person will be waving their stupid security-wand over me,while illegal immigrants keep popping up all over the place by the truck-load?

This must all be another “lie” like on the bumper sticker! HOW COULD SOMETHING LIKE THIS EVER HAPPEN? The ladies in charge of the democrat party insist that not only is there no terrorist threat, but it’s time to start disassembling our national defense as clinton did! Come on democrats, lead the way – if those commanding our armed forces keeping us safe are incompetent as you say and the country’s safe, it’s time for pelosi and junior senator clinton to throw open the gate!

Seems those afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome are out in force again today. Don’t you guys have anything better to do with your time than to feel good about yourselves at your oh-so-chic and clever rants about the current administration and conspiracy theories, after drinking your Koolaide? If this was such a horrible totalitarian regime, why are you allowed to continue posting without having knocking on your doors. The contradiction in your rants is amazing.
It’s funny how the stupidest, most inept and most moronic president in history according to you guys continues to run circles around a Congress that is even stupider, more inept and clearly more moronic than your greatest threat to the civilized world. He’s gotten almost everything he’s wanted, as Congress caves in time and time again.

this is a fake story, I repeat, this is a fake story, I’m sure it’s been said a dozen times on here by now, the “PDF file from the fbi” was created in Microsoft Word by a user named “Surowis” at about quarter to 12 this morning, look at the “editor’s” name above, I mean come on, this is fake as can be. don’t believe me? download the file and look for yourself

Is there some link from some far right sight to this? What in the world is going on? How can so many think that their fellow citizen, the Democrat, is the reason for all of “this?” Interesting. The worst WH in history yet they have a pack of people convinced their next door neighbor that pulled another leaver did it. Like the real enemy is their neighbor. These are absurd times. You people know how to examine those in charge of our government at all or do you just give them a blind pass on everything?

Are they trying to tank the dollar. Give me a break. Between their fake terrorism warnings and high gas costs it’s gonna be a tough holiday for retailers. If you believe this junk, you are lacking in the ability to objectively observe the absolute farce that is our government and mainstream media.

It is there job to say something anytime some idiot makes a threat, it is part of the reason they get paid. There is alot of hate here just over people doing their job.

I love folks who say Bush is behind this. You’re all aware he’s not running in ’08, right?
Get over the Bush hate. The moment an attack occurs, you’ll be whining that there was no warning.

Its not alqueda we have to worry about its American terrorists we need to worry about more so! did we forget Tim Mcvie.

hell they dont need to kill anybody, to destroy our economy all they need is a few emps launched in a few places and we will destroy th rest on panic including each other.and they would sit back and watch.

Always Vigilent

They hit our malls. We nuke Western Pakistan.

To those of you sick of them “cryin’ wolf,” suppose the Trade Towers’ employees had been frequently told that in the event of another attack (they’d already been bombed once) to just get OUT as fast as they could fly down a stairwell? What if just 10 people per floor remembered those ridiculous warnings? 20 people, 50? What number would make it worthwhile?

I take everything I hear on this website seriously. I would’nt read it everyday if I didn’t. I live in the Chicago area. I wish I could afford to do my Christmas shopping early this year. I would do it. I think we are truely headed for/if we aren’t already in the midst of it, (World War III.) I think it’s time for everyone to wake up, and see what’s really going on here. Religeously speaking, I think we are truely near the end. We all need to start praying.

A whole lot of cynicism in this column, from the Left and the Right. It’s discouraging. I’m hoping this is a cross-section of the political wonks and extremists, and not a measure of the temperment of most Americans. I think if it were so, we’d already be in another Civil War. I don’t think most Americans are ‘sheep,’ as both sides here seem to think. Nothing like fear to generate such rhetoric of anger and hate. My question is this: Why is nearly everyone in this column so fearful?

What’s wrong with you people? Half of you losers can’t write a complete sentence and the other half can’t reason. First of all, the dollar is weak because of our tax policies. Money from the means of production is taxed going out and taxed again coming in. This is not the fault of the current administration. You can thank FDR and subsequent adminstrations that believed in progressive tax policies for that. Second, it is important to get this information out as our government is constitutionally mandated to protect us from enemies both foreign and domestic. We have created several fronts in the War on Terror so we don’t have to have one here. The practitioners of the wonderful, serene, peace loving cult of Islam will figure out at some point how simple it will be to attack our malls, movie theaters, schools and buses. You had better be ready. Moreover, you had better be smart enough not to elect a Democrat to the White House in next November. She’ll be too busy fighting “global warming”, the evil rich and robbing you of more of your hard earned income to socialize medicine “for the children” to notice there is a real threat to our national security. If you want to do something for the children beat the Islamic fascists into a giant pit and fill it with water. Oh wait, the Democrats wouldn’t do that. That would be a waste of water.

All I can say is that I am thankful that we have a strong, courageous leader like President Bush. It’s because of his strong leadership that we have been kept safe.
I cannot fathom the destruction to our country that will take place if the cowardly, cut and run Marxist’s ( I mean Democrats) are in power. If they get the Presidency we’re doomed. Run the democrat/commies out of town and elect strong,moral leaders who govern based on 3 priciples: limited government, strong national defense, traditional family values.

The only thing worse than a terrorist, are those who deny their existence.
Crazies.

Everyone… Terror is real and all encompassing! Love is not. Only terror exists. Herein lies the fear of dog!

I think we need to always take these warnings seriously. These enemies just may be messing with our heads–making it appear that they are about to do something whey they aren’t for quite awhile then WHAM! RIGHT WHEN WE LEAST EXPECT IT!
Just never be afraid to report anything suspicious that you may hear or see to the police as soon as possible.
Big crowd sporting events are also danger spots.
Remember Pearl Harbor, no one was expecting that either. Please for your own good, don’t make fun of those who are trying to protect us.

America is divided and poised for another civil war. Are enemys don’t have to do anything but sit back and watch.

What, the religion of “peace”?

Al Qaeda is no match for Mall Security! No Loitering, fellas!

I hope that AQ ia aware that an attack like this is under our current administration will result in their respective homelands being absolutely obliterated.

Give me a break. This is the most insain thing they can come up with now. Don’t be surprized when we all find out our government is behind this, along with their paid media boogy men.
I agree our borders should be more secure, but honestly if someone wants to do America harm they really don’t need to bother, our government is capable of doing it to us instead.

There have been so many of these “warnings” from the government and the terrorists and yet nothing ever happens not even attempts so why should we take this seriously?!

As hard as it may be for some of the cynics here to believe, these warnings are primarily for law enforcement agencies, the postal service, and so forth who have standards of increased security that go in to place when there is a possibility of a terrorist action.

C’mon..you can’t blame Bush for everything…let’s see what happens when a democrat gets into office..
That’s when we really have to worry about our safety….I’m very worried.
They are by far the most incompetent group of people I’ve ever seen. Hats off to George Bush for keeping this country safe since 9/11.

“Its not alqueda we have to worry about its American terrorists we need to worry about more so! did we forget Tim Mcvie.”
A crazy loner or guy working with a couple of friends that is not backed by any serious movement is not comparable to the Jihadist ideology that is followed by tens of millions of and supports random terrorist attacks on innocent people. McVeigh killed under 200 in an isolated event. Jihadist terrorists have been killing people around the world in HUNDREDS of attacks for 28 years!

And I can’t believe the GOP ‘bots here who actually believe the Federal claptrap about how “they ‘hate’ our freedom and prosperity”. This is SO naive. Ger a clue knuckleheads. Have a care for your fellow Americans who are coming home in pieces because BushCo wanted to make a buck. GROW UP! Get RID of them A N D “AQ” by voting for RON PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!

what a bunch of fear-mongering bs…this is just further attempts to steal our freedoms

The only Al Qaeda I’m aware of are the one’s in the White House!…

Let me address on piece of dis-information I’ve seen repeated here and elsewhere endless times. That is GASOLINE IS MORE EXPENSIVE! Since when? When I first got a learners permit in California in the mid sixties gas has gone from about 30 cents a gallon to about $3 a gallon. Average income for a family has gone from about $5K a year (My mother brought home $100 a week for a family of four) to about $50K (My family of three brings in over twice that but I’m speaking of averages) so give-or-take a few percentage points, gas is the same price in constant dollars as it was in the sixties. P.S. Don’t look now but no one with a lick of sense thinks the U.S. economy is doing poorly.

The day AQ begins attacking in the US, as they do in Europe and Asia, is the day that Americans finally lose our patience. We won’t tolerate life with suicide bombers or barbarians that target children. Anyone remember Dresden, Hiroshima?

This is where the public needs to go to malls with their concealed weapons permit and exercise their constitutional right to protect themselves.

It’s not necessary for al Qaeda to try and hurt us at the malls…China is doing that for them. Still the liberals refuse to believe we are at war; dead bodies scattered through a mall would not hold their attention for more than a few weeks.

This will be the (GWB) excuse for the bad Holiday sale data.

Wow! It amazes me how the seeds of discontent among all Americans here with either Conservative, Liberal or middle of the road comments have been sown so widely by our politicians. When will we all band together regardless of our varying political views and TAKE OUT THE TRASH? Isn’t it time? We all may disagree on policy but we agree that the government has lied, is lying and will lie again. We the people OWN them. We elect them. Lets start TAKING OUT THE TRASH! As far as Al Qaeda go, they are dangerous but, the American people armed with the right info and guns will prevail. What are we mice or MEN?! Don’t ever forget 9/11 or what this country was founded on.
- John
Tampa Bay

It’s hilarious to me that the same crowd that yelled “Bush was laying down on the job”, “There was a warning!” and “why didn’t we know?” about 9/11 are now unhappy when they warn everyone before-hand regardless of the strength of the intel. Nice dichotomy. They even stated publicly that it could be faulty. I say, no matter what anyone does, remain unhappy and suspicious.

About 2,240 days since the Islamist airliner suicide attacks, and another attack has not occurred on US soil. And the leftists continue to tell us how the war in Iraq has made us more vulnerable to terrorism. Exactly which party is guilty of the “big lie” here?

Senator Ted Kennedy advocates gun control to prevent Al Kaida from getting guns. Seems to me that guns will always be easier to steal (from cops, if necessary) than airplanes.
On the other hand, armed shoppers could stop an AK-47 attack, as Israeli shoppers have discovered. Suicide bombs are another matter; nothing will work against that, short of punishing the bombers’ families.

Thanks Billy Bob Dave and Latttedatter for your posts. There are apparently plenty of Americans that haven’t fallen “victim” to the intense brainwashing and propaganda campaign of the liberal Anti-American left and the drive-by media.
As for some, perhaps you are reading the wrong newspapers. Or just ignoring the good news because it won’t help you jealous, resentful America-hating socialists overthrow America. Ignorant and angry, full of hate and envy. That describes the looney left in this country today.

Responding to the poster who wants to know if waterboarding is acceptable if we know it could stop an attack of this type that would take place in 1-2 days:
How do you KNOW the attack is imminent?
How do you KNOW the guy who you’re going to torture has information that will stop the attack?
How do you KNOW that he will provide truthful information, or any information at all, if you use waterboarding?
The answer is, you only know this if those are the conditions of the fictional scenario you’ve created. In real life, this you never have this sort of certainty. That’s why we try to establish policies that protect both the rights of prisoners and the integrity of the information we seek from them, rather than torturing people we don’t KNOW are guilty until they tell us whatever they think we want to hear, whether it’s true or not.

Libs and Cons point at each other saying the other can’t stop the attacks that haven’t happened. Grow up! I will be shopping this season. Period. The pigs will not stop me. The government can not protect us against those who are willing to die in their attacks. No matter who is in charge. I will not hide from them. Those who trade their liberty for security deserve neither.

I can just hear the late Mayor Daley, “The FBI and DHS are not here to create disinformation, they are here to preserve disinformation,”

When I was in school we were taught that America was the melting pot of the world. If every person who lived in the United States had to swear alligience to her then acts against our country by people living here would be a clear case of “traitor” it would save a lot of legal time. After reading These posts I’m not sure if all of you are loyal citizens. You are just self-centered individuals.

Disrupt the economy? Would anyone notice??

sharpinchitown: You hit the nail right on the head, my friend. There is only one intelligence group that can roam the US without interference and it isn’t the CIA. Do a google search on “zoomcopter kiosks” or “urban moving systems” and you will have some interesting reading. The day that America wakes up and discovers its ‘allies’ have been spying and undermining its security efforts is still a long way off. Extra Credit: search on “by way of deception, thou shalt do war” and you will find the key behind the “War on Iraq”.

Latterdater: We hear all these “plots” expoed in the nick of time such as the one you note in Chicago, however I see no news stories about the convictions of either this guy, the JFK bomb plotters, or the Fort Dix guys. Seems to me that these legal convictions should be plastered on the news if there was enough evidence to convict. If there wasn’t enough evidence to convict, one has to wonder if these stories like the hazy threat in the above article are a phantom menace.
The difference between the pre-9/11 warnings and the above news “story” is that the pre-9/11 warnings came from MULTIPLE CREDIBLE sources, just read the 9/11 commission report.
Seems like the HSA and TSA have been able to whip people into a frenzy, spend a lot of money, & kill tourism, but that’s about it. What a great achievement- NOT! Keep looking for those shoe bombs in airports without chemical sniffers and confiscating sealed bottles of water.

Ricardo Maxwell: Being an apologist for the anti-Constitutionalist “Right wing” is not something to be proud of. You supporters are doing more to damage the Bill of Rights than any Al-Quaeda operative ever could with any amount of explosion. When the USA ceases to adhere to due process, presumption of innocence, the right to assemble in protest, and the right to criticise members of our government, we are no longer the sons & duaghters of the American Revolution’s legacy. People of your ilk are the same apologists who clamoured for security and protection of the “homeland” after the Reichstag fire. How did that turn out? In a free society, bad things happen. You go after those who bankrolled and perpetreated the acts, not put 3/4 of a million people on a watch list. That is just logic.

Billy Bob: Thanks for blaming FDR for a weak dollar today, however your logic is flawed. The dollar was pretty stong from the time his policies were enacted in the late 1930′s through the 1990′s.
For a failed progressive tax policy, don’t you think that’s a long time to take effect if that was the correct cause? How was it during most of the time FDR’s policies were not mesed with, we were the great lender nation as opposed to being the great debtor nation?
Rather, I think you should look at the policies of Nixon, Reagan, GHWB, and Clinton to see why the country is in the sad financial shape it is in. They took FDR’s framework and cannibalised in the name of giving corporations more lattitude with trickle down economics to shaft the American worker in a multitude of ways.

This is just more BS! Another way to attempt to put FEAR into our heads during a major holiday. If “the terrorist” do bomb us, besides losing innocent lives at our mall, we have lost nothing else. Our economy already is going down. Our dollar is worth less. We are fighting in the “War on terror” but we are not. Why are we over there? Oh, yeah it was to fight terrorism, or take out Sadam, or get oil???? Waste our money and kill our soilders! This will give our lovely gov’t yet another reason to create FEAR and hostility into our heads. We trained binlauden before “he” attacked us. We put sadam into power, took him out, put him in…… When things help US, who cares about THEM? Is that not our gov’t motto?????
TIME FOR A CHANGE.

I think it’s about time we faced the fact that there’s no way to GUARANTEE absolute safety. So many people are upset about immigration laws, but even if they were enforced, it still wouldn’t take us down to a zero percent chance of an attack. Besides, what about our own homegrown wackos, the ones born and bred right here in the good ‘ol U.S. of A.? I mean really, what do people expect the government to do? Last I knew, miracles were the specialty of God, not the U.S. government. Do people expect our leaders to turn America into a military state and have everyone of us surveilled? After all, how are they to know for sure whether YOU or I are a threat…hmm? Perhaps you should be prepared to hear, “Big Brother’s watching.”

Does it really matter if the President does or doesn’t suck…how about actually paying attention here! I work part time in a Chicago-land Mall for extra cash. The last bomb threat we had…of wait, didn’t hear about that, did you…no, because they didn’t wan to scare folks into staying away from the malls…forgot, we’re not supposed to talk about it…..it took over an hour for all store to be notified….and an additional hour to evacuate the mall..with one stupid woman wanting to know if she could buy a sweater before she was ‘kicked out’.
The mentality level of the public is amazing! The threats are real and it’s only a matter of time. Let’s blame the President. Oh please. How about we blame ourselves?! It doesn’t matter who is in office, because if they want to strike, they will.
The sarcasm from people is pathetic here ‘oh no, not the malls’. Guess what, real people work there and families all go just to get out of their house. The one’s who are being sarcastic will be the first one’s in line to sue or to be on the news about how they lost someone.

Jack Bauer could handle this! As a matter of fact, he did handle something like this.
Send in Bauer, send in Bauer, send in Bauer!!!

I just can’t believe the number of leftists comments here. It’s all Bush’s fault, Cheney’s the real terrorist, Halliburton’s evil…blah…blah…blah.
You don’t even believe there IS a war on terror. There really AREN’T ANY Islamofacists, just economically challenged freedom fighters.
Just after the 9-11 attacks, I recall seeing a jihadi training video from an Afghanistan camp. The trainees were shooting at a picture of Bill Clinton!!! What did Clinton do to them? Especially after essentially saving the Bosnian Muslims.
They were also firing at a Star of David AND, get this, a Christian Cross!!! Economically challenged indeed. Have you also noticed how thousand year old Bhuddist statues have been obliterated? Seeing any pattern yet????
There IS an enemy out there who wants all westerners dead, or converted to Islam, or to become Dhimmi. (Check wikipedia if you haven’t a clue)

Even if this threat is credible, the mall zombies will pack the malls looking to run up their credit card debt.

Yea..Yea…Yea…Same old BS! Oooga Booga the Terrorists are going to get you!
If there is an attack then it surely was arranged by the FBI and/or other government agencies. All this will do is keep people from going to the malls and spending whats left of their worthless US Dollars. Looks like another bad year for xmas sales.Thanks FBI!

This all goes deeper than George W. Bush and Co. There are deeper organizations that you will never know of, you “right wing” faithfuls will say this is a conspiracy theory… You “left wing” folks will say that this is a conspiracy theory. You’ve all fallen into the trap that was set up so long ago… It’s very easy to control humans Divide and Conquer, spread the fear, layer it with the illusion of safety, and add just a pinch of shiny stuff to distract them. Soon enough the “conspiracy theorists” will be proven right, and it will either be too late, or you people can wake up and fight the fight that is worth fighting. Beyond that in the scope of the universe, this little science experiment called earth will eventually end, and we’ll all be back where we came from.

america is in the very early stages of the left wing(liberal democrats) aligning with the islamic terrorists. philosophically there is very little difference between the two groups. we will see liberal terrorism on U.S. soil in the very near future.

If we are in for the fight of our lives, we need to get real nasty in dealing with these folks and facilitate
their departure from this earth.
I think that if they bomb our malls, public opinion will force our government to really crack down on these militanrs instead of respecting their “human rights.”

When this regieme decides we need a “terrorist attack” to “wake the public up”, we will have it. Odd that the democrats, who are so complicit, simply do not point out each time one of these “warnings” of what “may” happen, do not point out that if any such thing occurs, it will be this regieme’s fault…(e.g. open borders, etc.) Perhaps the democrats do this because they are witting cooperatives of our new fascist state…Best to save their own jobs.

You bunch of librals. If they do attack you will be crying why did’nt Busch do something!!!

David J – yeah, “booga booga” there’s no such thing as terrorism, it’s all drummed up in sync with elections. Gimme a break. You know, that conspiracy crap is getting old. On any given day, there’s an election going on somewhere in the world. So, because of that, there’s really no credible information about terrorist plots for us to ever believe?

you people that beleive that our goverment is not protecting the u. s. a.are way out of line.if they was not we would have already been hit by now.however if clinton would have done his job it would have not happened……….and mrs bill is no better.phony,phony,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

So it wasn’t enough for bush to bomb our WTC….now bush is going to bomb our woman and children in the malls for christmas….thanks bush….I’m sure it will motivate these stupid Americans into believing your LIES and ok’ing your next war for the new year!! bush has perfected “REVERSE-TERRORISM” on us all…make no mistakes about it…ANY “terrorism” on US soil this holiday is by the same crew in washington who used “demolishion” explosived to perfectly “drop” 2 towers in center city…OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA THE WOLF IS HERE IN OUR BACK YARDS< OUR PHONES< AND MAIL

Judging from the comments here I don’t know why AQ would attack the US. We’re already attacking ourselves. The Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferers will be the death of this country.

I guess while I was President I must have been involved with several plots. Let’s see there was the first attempt to bring down the Towers, then let’s see..oh yea, the USS Cole attack, and oh the Embassies in Africa. My goodness, I was pretty busy those 8 years. NOT…it was Governor Bush from Texas..He made all that happen. I tried to stop him, but I was just to busy with Monica.

Wake up America. If you think it can’t happen here, you’re fools of the first order.

Let me break it down for you folks. The CIA RUNS AL QAEDA. Just as they did to the Black Panthers, the CIA penetrated the Muslim Brotherhood in the 70′s and is now controlling it.
Politicians are merely enablers and do not run the show.
The same teams of intelligence agencies (CIA, Mossad, MI-5, etc) are playing both sides of the field. They create Psychological Trauma through extreme events such as 9/11 and the 7/7 London bombings. They then highlight, replay, and reference the traumatic event repeatedly. Each time the public relives the event in their mind. Eventually the public’s minds are weakened into a state of submission. This is what its all about friends. Control the masses through a psychological grid of fear.
The only way out is to FREE YOUR MIND!!

I just wish BILL caught OSAMA when he was given the opportunity.

Whats wrong SCNTX, can’t take it when a little bit of TRUTH shows up? Sorry to break up your little “hate party”.
Joe Lieberman had you wackos pegged yesterday when he said you’re “hyper-partisan, politically paranoid”.

This is consistent with al Qaeda’s objectives. They know that they cannot defeat the US militarily. The asymetrical attack is their most effective strategy. The attack would be directed against civilian targets, just as in the case of the 9/11 attacks. The intention of al Qaeda is to spread terror among the civilian population and disrupt our economy. Many of you liberal dodos and rabid Bush-haters can’t absorb these simple facts.
Whenever the Federal government tries to uncover one of these plots, you claim it’s just Bush trying to make political points with the neo-cons. Keep up your ignorance. It’s what al Qaeda wants. It’s no wonder that they supported Kerry for President in 2004 and supported Democrats in 2006. Keep up the bad work, boneheads. Al Qaeda is rooting for you to prevail.

YO SCNTX…think back 6 years…the troops were home. They do us no good in the states, they have to be on the hunt. Killing people is what they are trained to do and they do it better than anyone. They are keeping you safe, every freedowm you have is because of them. Respect it!

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the rest of the Pacific/Asian countries and Hitler already started his march across Europe, the U.S. was a military mouse. Yet Franklin Delano Roosevelt said it best “We have nothing to fear but Fear itself.” I don’t think we’ll see Taliban/Terrorist/Al Queda bombers, battleships or landing craft crossing the Oceans. Nevertheless the current administration can only come up Fear as a motivational message. How Sad for the United States which led the allies to defeat the greatest military powers. If Bush thinks that Osama, Iran, N.Korea and Burma are the greatest threats to democracy in the last 100 years compared to Nazi Germany, Hirohito & Tojo, & Stalin and Mao, his father should force him to view Ken Burn’s “War” documentary twelve times.

Bush critics might note that the reason we can laugh in the face of this terror threat is because of some of the administration security policies, though far from perfect. Most of the credit goes to the agents and police, but they need the added powers to protect us. Thank you for keeping us safe.

The Chuck Norris movie “Invasion USA” outlined this plan years ago.

Don’t believe the hype just get your family ready. 13 men come in steal 4 planes and crash them where they want. Gas prices roaring, housing market down, people losing jobes. We are numb right now just as we were before 9-11.
You heard it here first it will be your neighbor you will be worried about. Things will get to the point that people will have to steal to drive and eat. Laugh now but don’t come to my house with bad intentions because we are prepared.
How easy will it be for 20 terrorist to just start shooting people all over the country like the 2 idiots on the East coast. Wake up America you are not the GIANT we once were. If things go bad for any reason do you think law enforcement has enough support to protect you during a major crisis.
If you have a family and are without a fire arm, food and water stored and a plan…. you are not providing for that family and should start.

Yup. Republicans down in the polls, closing in on the election, and the unverified and doubtful terrorism threats suddenly start.
Was this predictable or what?

Al Qaeda wants to disrupt the U.S. economy? Hasn’t anyone been reading the financial pages, lately? Anyone who’s paying attention already knows that our economy is imploding, now. The banking system is blowing out, the dollar is dropping like a stone and mass foreclosures will leave millions more people homeless. The danger isn’t an Al Qaeda attack on a shopping mall. It’s Dick Cheney going for another Reichstag Fire incident (or getting Rudy Giuliani elected president) so that he can finish the job of imposing a fascist dictatorship on the U.S.

Whistlin’Dixie….Typical liberal, can’t read. The bulge in Yellowstone is rising 2.8 inches a year, not 3 inches a day. Al Qaeda is the threat not Yellowstone, go back to your coloring books.

it’s always the democrats who stop Bush from doing the right thing, then they’re the first ones to blame him for not doing something to take care of it

It’s not bush’s fault. It’s Carters’ GW Sr., Clinton’s, and W’s Fault. Every president since TAFT except Kennedy and Regan are to blame. It’s called nation building. W said he would not do it before he was elected, and on day he told his staff to find a reason to attack IRAQ. Now he wants to attack IRAN. If they do attack us, it is in self defense. WE are the ones to blame for letting all those in congress both Dems and Repubs for getting us into this crap.

Shame. I can’t believe how many people hate our country so badly to still blame this all on Bush. You are the true american idiots and will be the reason this great nation falls. get your head out of your back door and look at the facts not the liberal lie machine.

if these attacks happen thousands could die. will this wake our lawmakers up to the fact that war should be officially declared against islam itself. we need to eliminate this threat at least within our borders. these people need to be deported or detained, whatever can be legally done in times or WAR.

Sylvain…it’s not Americans being paranoid, it is propaganda of George Bush and the Fourth Reich.

If the Gov’t did NOT say anything – and something happened – then these same holier-than-thou liberal pundits would be bashing the White House for NOT saying anything. So I guess I can’t wait for a stupid Dem to get into office – he/she is going to have the same situation W has now. I can then sit and make idiotic comments on how well that administration is handling things. Must be nice to still be protected and just mouth off.

What was this topic about???? Oh yea, the FBI drooled out a threat and the abc darlings sent it packing for them. Talk about ENABLERS…Now how are we going to shop if the FBI threatens our check out lines???? BAD FBI…when you get another FAX from HOMELAND SENILITY how about sending it back marked…CROSS ME OFF YOUR LIST… EXCLUSIVE R US JOURNALISTS.

No, please don’t take away my mall! I’ll do anything…well, anything I can think of, which isn’t much, since I’ve been to the mall way too much this year. Please, I need to go to the mall this year for…well, frankly, I can’t think of a thing. Never mind. Emergency over. Carry on.

To those who believe that “the Terrorists are out there and they want to kill YOU”, I beg you for perspective. To those who believe that George W and the neocons are sowing fear over an insignificant threat, I beg you for perspective. The truth as usual is in the boring middle ground but the consequences for not understanding this ARE, in fact, extreme.
Terrorist are indeed out there and now that there’s no Soviet Union to stick its thumb in the eye of the #1 world power from time to time, the latent global hatred against that power has no release valve and is finding its expression mostly in fundamentalist Islam who just happen to have had quite a jump on everyone in the business of organized global hatred. Just wait, you’ll see offshoots of the AlQaeda model only rooted in other historical grievances. BUT, despite the fact that terrorists are indeed “out there”, we have to ask ourselves if they really truly represent a risk to our daily lives as Americans. The answer is philosophically, realistically, and statistically not UNLESS you count what is happening right here as I, ironically, write on my keyboard. I just took ten minutes out of my awesome American life to read another terrorism alert and post on an unbelievably long thread. How stupid and unproductive is that?
These alerts are useful as long as they’re specific and meet a minimum threshhold of credibility. But if you’re not directly affected, I say LET’S ALL AGREE TO STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. Not just on the blogs but in our daily lives. Can you imagine how discouraged a terrorist would be to see one of their bombs met with a calm measured reaction and general silence among the public? The fact that we’re all breathlessly debating and blaming our favorite political punching bag is precisely the wrong strategy for combating the threat. Short of any humanitarian assistance to those seriously affected, I think I’ll start a personal “Campaign of Indifference to Terror”.
Join me?

I want to know if soft targets are “on the table” for al qaeda and killing our civilians is ‘OK’ then why are the civilians in Waziristan exempt from reprisals?

Does anyone really believe in “Al Qaeda”? More like Al-CIA, Duhhh!

After reading many of the sarcastic posts I have learned those ‘merikans have not lost their sense of humor! And by the way, take it easy on us Canadians. We have enough security issues with used nuclear submarines, dog-eared helicopters, but we are spending more money sending our troops to far away places like Afghanistan….Iraq. So……

Omanis fight for their rights in Goulahshpabiya!!! gonna stand for that?

This is a serious problem..the malls are the most crowded places in the US..A terrorist attack at the US malls can bring a lot of damage..so, this time its better to go for online shopping , rather than hitting the nearest shopping mall..