Unsurprising
I’m sort of surprised it hasn’t happened yet, but Time is reporting that Zarqawi may be planning attacks on soft targets in the states:
Two weeks after intelligence officials confirmed that Osama bin Laden had sent a message to Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, urging him to plan attacks on U.S. soil, details are emerging from one of al-Zarqawi’s lieutenants about what the man behind many of the terrorist attacks in Iraq could have in mind. Intelligence officials tell TIME that interrogation of a member of al-Zarqawi’s organization, who was taken into U.S. custody last year and has been described as a top aide, indicates that al-Zarqawi has given ample consideration to assaults on the American homeland. According to a restricted bulletin that circulated among U.S. security agencies last week, the interrogated aide said al-Zarqawi has talked about hitting “soft targets” in the U.S., which could include “movie theaters, restaurants and schools.”
Careful out there.
March 14th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
I just finished reading Teeth of the Tiger yesterday… not the best day to then read about such things (even in the hypothetical) in real life. Kinda like the time back in the ’80s when my Dad was reading the scene in Red Storm Rising where the Plattsburg ANG was activated. Well, at the time, he was on Lake Champlain, (Plattsburg is about 50 miles to the north, on the lake) and three F-4s from the very same Plattsburg ANG go buzzing down the lake at about 100 feet… it got a little more realistic than he was expecting… Anyway… stupid story.