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August 03, 2004
Report: U.S. Banks in London Targeted
UPI:
British intelligence officials say U.S. financial institutions in London have been targeted for terror attacks by al-Qaida, The Times of London said Tuesday.

The information came from a cache of coded e-mails found on a computer belonging to an al-Qaida suspect living in Pakistan. The information prompted the U.S. government to raise its security alert status for New York, Washington, and Newark, N.J.

The British government responded immediately to the intelligence by convening a session of the emergency coordinating unit known as Cobra.

The newspaper said after the meeting, Scotland Yard cautioned high-profile U.S. institutions such as Citigroup, which is based in one of the "twin towers" of Canary Wharf, and the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, which have headquarters in London.

Cross-posted from Backcountry Conservative.

Posted by Jeff Quinton at August 3, 2004 03:37 PM | TrackBack
Comments

More patella twitching.

Everything US is a potential target. Anywhere in the world.

We're getting our chain pulled, once again. Every time we react to this stuff, it costs us Millions.

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 3, 2004 11:54 PM

Don-
Save your inane comments. Read the article under the thread, "The Terror Web."

Posted by: Jim [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 4, 2004 03:09 AM

Read it.

Advice: Don't completely believe Everything you read. This whole Terrism game is being played and spun every which way by all sorts of folks, here and elsewhere.

What comes out of most of the material available is that no one really Knows all that much, and less so is capable of acting on it.

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 4, 2004 11:14 AM

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