Al Qaeda targets Texas
Intercepted communications suggest an al Qaeda attack on the Texas energy business around July 4.
"...With Texas as the target, officials are especially concerned about oil or gas facilities and pipelines because al-Qaida terrorists in the past have talked about attacking the energy sector as a way of damaging America's economy, officials said.
"A federal official confirmed an account first published in Newsweek magazine that a possible al-Qaida operative known as 'Sakr' told another person during an Internet chat room conversation that an attack had been planned for a long time, and that terrorists inside the United States were only waiting for approval from a man dubbed 'the Sheik' before striking in early July.
"The information was more intriguing to intelligence analysts than much of the avalanche of vaguely suspicious electronic intercepts because Sakr had sent a message predicting 'good news' coming from Morocco shortly before a successful terrorist strike in that country."
Intercepted communications suggest an al Qaeda attack on the Texas energy business around July 4.
"...With Texas as the target, officials are especially concerned about oil or gas facilities and pipelines because al-Qaida terrorists in the past have talked about attacking the energy sector as a way of damaging America's economy, officials said.
"A federal official confirmed an account first published in Newsweek magazine that a possible al-Qaida operative known as 'Sakr' told another person during an Internet chat room conversation that an attack had been planned for a long time, and that terrorists inside the United States were only waiting for approval from a man dubbed 'the Sheik' before striking in early July.
"The information was more intriguing to intelligence analysts than much of the avalanche of vaguely suspicious electronic intercepts because Sakr had sent a message predicting 'good news' coming from Morocco shortly before a successful terrorist strike in that country."
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