'Credible But Not Specific' Threat of New Terrorist Attack

ABC News by Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Cole, Anna Schecter | Sep. 28, 2010 (News Report)
Officials in Europe, US on High Alert for Commando-Style Raids After Capture of Suspected German Terrorist

US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry out a major, coordinated series of commando-style terror attacks in Britain, France, Germany and possibly the United States. A senior US official said that while there is a "credible" threat, no specific time or place is known. Full Story »

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 by Jon Mitchell - Sep. 29, 2010

This is one of the least trustworthy stories I've come across in a long time. I honestly didn't think the mass media had it in them anymore. But sure enough, right out of the Bush era playbook, here's a story that takes classified intelligence, one anonymous captured informant, and an empty bomb threat in France and turns it into a looming international terrorist conspiracy "blessed by Osama bin Laden," although "that claim has not YET been validated." The video is a very weak, exploitative, un-journalistic scare piece. It goes so far beyond the scope of today's real story into Muslim prayer sounds, speculation, and casual misuse of the word "jihad" (or "JEE-hod," in a Midwestern TV journalist accent).

The captured German claimed that the attack had been personally blessed by Osama bin Laden, a claim that has not yet been validated.

No kidding.

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