Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Is Al Qaeda Targeting Wall Street?

Photo from FOX News

Exclusive: Wall Street Execs On New Terror Threat Info -- New York Daily News

Security officials are warning the leaders of major Wall Street banks that al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen may be trying to plan attacks against those financial institutions or their leading executives.

Intelligence officials stress the threats are general in nature and there is "no indication of a targeted assassination plot" against any Wall Street executive. But NBCNewYork.com has learned officials fear the names of some top banking executives have been discussed by terror operatives overseas.

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More News On Al Qaeda Targeting Wall Street

U.S. briefs Wall Street about al Qaeda threat -- Reuters
Wall Street banks 'warned of terror threat' -- AFP
Report: U.S. Intel Officials Warn Wall Street Execs of Al Qaeda Plot -- FOX News
FBI Warns Wall Street of Possible Threat: Report -- The Street
U.S. briefs Wall Street about al-Qaeda threat -- Globe And Mail

My Comment: I am surprised that they are targeting them now .... you would have thought that they would have targeted Wall Street and its executives years ago.

1 comment:

Mark said...

probably part of the "we need to make news before 10yrs are over", otherwise the US can claim to have kept the US safe for 10yrs by having those wars

^--- or perhaps they even could want that, as these wars bleed the US dry