Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned
Pastor Dale Morgan
Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned*
Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11
By BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and RICHARD ESPOSITO
July 1, 2007 —
A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of
Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror
"spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to
the document.
"This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in
the summer of 2001," the official told ABCNews.com.
U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News' "This Week with
George Stephanopoulos" that the United States did not have "have any
specific credible evidence that there's an attack focused on the United
States at this point."
As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received
intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow
and Prague, the Czech Republic, against "airport infrastructure and
aircraft."
The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said
this weekend they had received "no advance intelligence" that Glasgow
might be a target.
Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on
on the report today, but said "everything that we get is shared
virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa."
Unlike the United States, officials in Germany have publicly warned that
the country could face a major attack this summer, also comparing the
situation to the pre-9/11 summer of 2001.
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