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Terror Alert Partly Based on Lies
(Len Tepper and Jill Rackmill, ABC News, February 19, 2003)
A key piece of the information leading to recent terror alerts was fabricated, according to two senior law enforcement officials in Washington and New York. . . . The informant described a detailed plan that an al Qaeda cell operating in either Virginia or Detroit had developed a way to slip past airport scanners with dirty bombs encased in shoes, suitcases, or laptops, sources told ABCNEWS. The informant reportedly cited specific targets of government buildings and Christian or clerical centers. . . . "This piece of that puzzle turns out to be fabricated and therefore the reason for a lot of the alarm, particularly in Washington this week, has been dissipated after they found out that this information was not true," said Vince Cannistraro, former CIA counter-terrorism chief and ABCNEWS consultant. . . . It was only after the threat level was elevated to orange � meaning high � last week, that the informant was subjected to a polygraph test by the FBI, officials told ABCNEWS. "This person did not pass," said Cannistraro. . . . Despite the fabricated report, there are no plans to change the threat level. Officials said other intelligence has been validated and that the high level of precautions is fully warranted.

[Comment: How convenient that the increased terrorist activity alert coincided with last weekend's Peace Demonstrations. Do you think the Bush-Cheney junta was trying to scare the demonstrators into staying home and duct taping themselves into their closets? Who in their right mind (which eliminates everyone in Washington) would believe that a nuclear bomb can be encased in a shoe?]

posted by LoZo 1:31 PM