Insurgents Allegedly Plotted U.S. Attack

(CBS)  Insurgents tied to Al Qaeda in Iraq allegedly attempted to use student visas to get into the United States to carry out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence officials tell CBS News.

The plot was discovered when documents were found during the course of raids before and after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death in June 2006, intelligence officials say. Contrary to some reports, though, the documents involved were not found in a Zarqawi safe house.

The plot was first revealed in written testimony by Defense Intelligence Agency chief Gen. Michael Maples last Thursday. Maples wrote: "Documents captured in a raid on Al Qaeda in an Iraq safe house revealed AQI (Al Qaeda in Iraq) was planning terrorist operations in the U.S."

Intelligence officials described the plot as "very preliminary, very fragmentary, and aspirational only" — "not operational." All of the individuals involved in the plot "are gone," say intelligence officials — either captured or dead.

Officials stressed that numerous measures have been taken and authorities are satisfied that any threat that existed has been "negated."

"There is no specific threat that we're aware of related to this," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko. "This is one of many pieces of threat information that works its way into the intelligence community system that needs to be evaluated."

[crusadex]

You know whats even funnier.it took 5 years for the Dems to stop whining about the queen of global warming lossing the election.I am sure in 20 years after iraq is over they will still be whining over it.And do absolutly nothing to make things better.Hillary is already transforming into a conservative christain to get there votes,
But a few years ago when i heard her at the national abortion rally she was a raging dem.
Who is she gonna be tomorow......dems,like prostitues open it to everyone and say ,"hey honey who would you like me to be today,maybe a nurse,or a nun...."pretty hard to respect.
I could respect a card carrying communist running for office more than these people.At least they are honest about their brand of bad.

[crusadex]

Hey samolia man, Why don't ya sick Pelosi on the terrorist.She can have a nice little gay rights parade in the middle of their compounds.And then for fun afterwards abort babies and give everyone free houssing and healthcare,assuming they aren't US citizens.
Seriously the Dems will do nothing that doesn't progress their cause wich has nothing to do with protecting the US.
Want to see us fall,elect a Dem president...bye bye USA

[wolf563]

If your from the middle east and living in the U.S.A. GO HOME NOW !!! Once the fighting starts over there you will not be safe in your homes or any where in the U.S.A. You will be found and erased by the general public . Your people kill children with out concern and our people will not allow this on our land . You come from a country with out proper laws to protect the public .walking the streets with guns and rockets looking for some one to kill . You are the virus on this earth and should be erraticated .

[grumpas]

I have little doubts the US is full of terrorist's! After all, Bush has focused on phantom terrorist's in Iraq trying to keep them contained there! He seems to think they have a community well they spring from in Bagdad! He has done literally nothing in seven years to protect our country from them. So I imagine if one were to look they would find them all over the place! I wonder ever now and then if Bush isn't a terrorist sympathizer! He has done everything human possible to see to it Osama was never caught! He has gone out of his way to look in all the wrong places he knows they aren't in! He hasn't done a thing to stamp out terrorism! So, why should the rest of us worry about it? After all Islamic fundamentalist's don't have to destroy us any longer! Bush is doing a bang up job of doing it for them!

[bluestardad]

You are more likely to get killed buying milk at the store than by a terrorist. This is just hype by bush cause he is in trouble! Impeach Bush and drag Rove behind a truck!

[bluestardad]

Bush pulls this bologna out each time he is in trouble. Why would we believe these reports from an intelligence group that had the Slam Dunk Info on Iraq! But did not see the 9/11 attacks coming!

[dallison7]

Yeah, we miss Lieberman. I'm going somewhere else, no one to laugh at here.

[grazinggoat]

Surprising to see lieberman18 not spewing yet his hate and boogie'ing about this report emanating from the same guys who lied about Iraq and that made our 10-watts bulb president Walking-Liar Bush make us invade that same country.

This 'under-condition-of-anonymity' intelligence bullsh*t is not credible anymore. It mangled our credulity too much for us to still give it a d*mn.

Boogieman18 we're expecting you and waiting for your sh*tty-perfumed spewing. What obsessed-wording are you going to amuze us with today? Is it the democracy is in danger. (Oh my God Alqaeda will not allow us to go to the landromat to wash our cloth. We'll be stinking all our life long?)


Stay shut, asleep, Boogiema18. The world is better off without you, and booooogieeeey alarm.

[fascistusa]

Don't you get it? The RICH control EVERYTHING.

The News. The Jobs. The War.

WE ARE A FASCIST NATION.

WE ARE ALL SLAVES.

[inventagod]

"Intelligence officials described the plot as "very preliminary, very fragmentary, and aspirational only" %u2014 "not operational." All of the individuals involved in the plot "are gone," say intelligence officials %u2014 either captured or dead...
"There is no specific threat that we're aware of related to this," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko"

SO - NO story, NO threat, yet Bu$hCo still gets headlines as usual when they wish to rattle the boogieman just before a major Bu$h speech...DISGUSTING and TRANSPARENT.
(Except to the drooling NeoCons)