http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/feds-threat-al-qaeda-terror-attack-911/story?id=14477592
U.S. authorities are scrambling to sort through information that the CIA developed in the past 24 hours indicating that at least three individuals entered the U.S. in August by air with the intent to launch a vehicle-borne attack against Washington, D.C. or New York around the anniversary of 9/11, according to intelligence officials.
I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of attack, but I am skeptical of both the existence and the potency of the threat of attack. Unless they have stockpiled numerous weapons without government noticing, a near impossibility for men of foreign, Arab descent in a post-9/11 world, I'm not sure what the attack would give them, beyond purely symbolic value. I find it easier to believe that Al Qaeda is reduced to the use of internet rumor to sew fear instead of actual action.
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