U.S. Warns of Possible Attack on Rail, Transit

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Is this starting to get old?  I mean I would ratherlive here with the threats than anywhere else in the world, but these stupid warnings every other day are getting old.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Transportation has issued a warning about possible attacks on rail and transit systems across the country, law enforcement officials said on Thursday.

 
The department\'s warning was sent out on Wednesday and was based on unconfirmed and uncorroborated information, one law enforcement official said.

"It involves rail and transit systems ... and is about possible attacks," he said.

The Department of Transportation consulted the FBI (news - web sites) before issuing the warning, but the FBI did not put out a matching alert or advisory to law enforcement officials across the country, the official said.

He did not have details on how many cities\' transit systems were being put on alert.

The Department of Transportation was not immediately available for comment.

This is the latest of a series of warnings eight months after hijacked airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon (news - web sites) and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, killing about 3,000 people.

Over the past week a host of top U.S. officials have issued a series of warnings of possible fresh attacks on the United States.

Vice President **** Cheney (news - web sites) warned over the weekend about the probability that extremists could launch fresh attacks on the United States.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Monday another attack was "inevitable" and told President Bush (news - web sites) this week that it would be difficult to stop another attack.

Officials said there has been a lot of intelligence coming in over the past few weeks warning of a possible attack, but they said it varied in terms of specificity and reliability.

The FBI already warned this week of possible general threats against landmarks in New York City, including the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge.

The United States blames Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his al Qaeda network for the Sept. 11 attacks, and a detained member of bin Laden\'s inner circle has been the source of many of the recent warnings.

Senior al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in March, has provided information recently that has led to alerts about possible threats to the landmarks in New York, apartment buildings, banks in northeastern U.S. states, supermarkets and shopping malls.

Officials acknowledge Zubaydah may not be telling the whole truth, but officials are erring on the sign of caution as they issue warnings to a nation already jittery after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The law enforcement official did not know the source of the information for the warning on transit and rail systems.

But another U.S. official said it was not believed to be linked to Zubaydah.

If they didnt warn the public and something happened, well you see my point

Personally, I do NOT mean this badly, but I think that America needs to move on.

Instead of alerting all these warnings, they need to move on, talk about something else, to show these pricks that nothing they can do can tare the US down.

Its just that all the news channels seem to be talking non stop about how powerful the US supposedly is, and how they will rise above it, yet this is all they talk about. Move on, to show it wasnt such an impact. But you can\'t forget it though.

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I agree Racer.  I wish we could move on.  It just gets so darn annoying.  Then they create some stupid ass color coded warning system.  They tell you we are in yellow alert, but they always say afterwards what yellow means.  So why the hell is it color coded?  Why don\'t they just say we are in a medium alert.

And do you change your life when you hear we are in medium alert?  Um, NO!!!

But I also agree with Clowd.  The crap the gov\'t is in right now is because no alerts were made when threats were discovered back before September.  Not that anyone could have stopped those planes even if we knew what was going to happen.

It\'s just what happens when you live in a country as free as we are.

Australia and UK are just as free as the US (both societies are built around your statute of Independence).

Its a shame. They need to show how strong they are by moving on. I am sick of watching these teary Oprah and Rikki shows about 9/11 and how our lives have changed.

Move on.

The only thing I am concerned about is because Australia/UK/America have such close ties, once they get sick of harrassing the US, they will come after us.

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Personally, I do NOT mean this badly, but I think that America needs to move on.

Instead of alerting all these warnings, they need to move on, talk about something else, to show these pricks that nothing they can do can tare the US down.

Its just that all the news channels seem to be talking non stop about how powerful the US supposedly is, and how they will rise above it, yet this is all they talk about. Move on, to show it wasnt such an impact. But you can\'t forget it though.

thats how the US government tries to further control peoples heads, through the media.

Just wait for the Nuke, then we\'ll "move on"...

There is a solution, but we\'re too suicidal to do it.