Tag: terror threat level
Posted on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 04:35:34 PM EST
Tags: terror threat level (all tags)
As Congress haggles over a new FISA bill and President Bush has threatened a veto, here comes a new terror alert.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin Friday to state and local law enforcement authorities advising them to watch for potential retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah, one day after the Lebanese militia group vowed to avenge the death of a top commander by attacking Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
Even though the bulletin says it's unlikely Hezbollah would attack in the U.S., the FBI told the 18,000 state and law enforcement agency recipients of its bulletin:
...it was intensifying its domestic intelligence-gathering efforts to identify any potential Hezbollah threats in the United States in the aftermath of Tuesday's car-bomb assassination of Imad Mughniyah in Syria.
The targets of the new activities:[More...]
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