Here's another article with even more interesting tidbits (which I've highlighted) concerning this, and my own comments which follow:
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U.S. Says Al Qaeda Targeting IMF, World Bank, NYSE
By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States raised the security alert level to high for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and companies in the New York area on Sunday after intelligence signaled a possible al Qaeda attack.
"High," or code orange, is the second highest level of alert and this was the first time that specific buildings were cited in raising the alert level.
"Reports indicate al Qaeda is targeting several specific buildings including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the District of Columbia," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told a news conference.
He added that the New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup Inc buildings and the Prudential Financial building in Newark, New Jersey, were also on the list.
"The president made the final decision today, agreeing with the recommendation of (Homeland Security) Secretary Ridge to go ahead and raise the threat level," White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said.
Both the IMF and World Bank, who hold their annual autumn meeting in early October, are located within three minutes walk of the White House in the heart of Washington.
New York authorities said they were studying reports of possible suicide attacks using trucks, in an echo of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center that killed six people.
New York is already on a heightened state of alert because the Republican Convention to launch President Bush's re-election bid will be held in the city at the end of August. (NOTE: I didn't know this!! Holy crap! Well no WONDER everybody's got such an intuitive bad feeling about New York getting hit this summer.....)
Ridge said that there was no specific information pointing to an imminent attack but a number of sources had indicated that al Qaeda, which carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was aiming again for the world's financial heart.
"What is extraordinary about these particular sites is the considerable detail and quality of information," he said.
A U.S. official told Reuters the information had been collected in the past 24 to 36 hours and went down to the level of the glass thickness of the buildings, when and how many security staff were on duty and the location of elevators and parking.
While declining to say where the information came from, Ridge mentioned Pakistan as a key ally but named no other country.
On Friday, Pakistan announced the capture of a top al Qaeda operative, Tanzanian-born Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, wanted by the United States in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 people.
A computer and several disks were seized when Ghailani and 13 others were seized last weekend southeast of Islamabad.
Spokesmen for the IMF and World Bank said they had been advised by U.S. authorities of the possible threat and were taking all necessary precautions. Citigroup contacted staff via email on Sunday to inform them of increased security steps.
Ridge said it was up to the companies and institutions involved to take any decision on whether to tell their people to stay away from work, but he hoped none would be cowed.
"I would like to think...the folks that work at those particular sites...would have the resolve and maybe a little bit of defiance to say...we're going to go about leading our lives," he said.
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This whole thing is such crap it's not even funny. Not to say that something won't happen....oh, I'm sure it will.........but it's all planned and staged and allowed, to serve an agenda. And yet the mass majority of the public believes the official story. TPTB start tossing out words like "Al Quada", and various Muslim sounding names, and the public just eats it up and believes every word of it. It really and truly is Orwell's "1984" come to life.
On a sidenote, M. Night Shamalyan has a new movie in theaters called "The Village" which is a metaphor for what's happening in America right now. The "Elders" creating a fake, non-existant enemy and then getting everybody in the village to be deathly afraid of something they've never actually seen or experienced. The villagers just take the Elders' word for it and follow along, full of fear.
Apprantly, most people who see this movie aren't "getting" it, and it's getting horrible word of mouth reviews. ("we thought it was supposed to be a supernatural horror thriller with actual real creatures!!! this movie sucks!!!") When I heard what the twist / symbolic metaphor was, I thought it was ingenious. Give the man a prize for hitting the nail on the head with the situation in America right now!
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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- But I do remember the Firesign Theater-WOW sent a whole bunch of memory stuff just hearing the words of Firesign Theater:) Wonder what that's gonna bring up on dreamscape channel tonight? 
