Terrorists linked to al Qaeda have targeted U.S. military facilities in Pearl Harbor, including nuclear-powered submarines and ships, The Washington Times has learned. Intelligence reports about the terrorist threat to the Hawaiian harbor were sent to senior U.S. officials in the past two weeks and coincided with reports of the planning of a major attack by Osama bin Laden's terrorist group. Officials said the reports were one of the reasons that led to the recent heightened security threat alert. The alert status has since been lowered.
Sounds like somebody's imagination's running wild...
According to officials familiar with the reports, al Qaeda is planning an attack on Pearl Harbor because of its symbolic value and because its military facilities are open from the air. The attacks would be carried out by hijacked airliners from nearby Honolulu International Airport that would be flown into submarines or ships docked at Pearl Harbor in suicide missions, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
They could also recruit flying monkeys and have them drop pots of boiling oil on our sailors' heads...
In 1995, al Qaeda terrorists were found to have planned a series of attacks using bombs planted on commercial airliners departing from Asia. The plan, known as Project Bojinka, was thwarted by the arrest of one of the plotters in Manila. However, U.S. officials said a key feature of al Qaeda is its determination to carry out unfinished attacks, as the strike on the World Trade Center towers showed. The first attack in 1993 was unsuccessful in knocking down the two skyscrapers.
I'd take this with a large grain of salt. It sounds like barracks-room BS, or Qaeda-kiddies fantasizing on some chat room. And if there's ever another planeload of passengers flown into something, I'll be really surprised... |