>The FBI urged law enforcement agencies around the world to stop or
>detain Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, a Yemeni national who was born in
>Saudi Arabia in 1979 and has a number of aliases, as well as 16 of
>his known associates.
>
>FBI officials said there was no record that al-Rabeei had ever
>entered the United States. His current whereabouts are unknown, and
>he may even be dead, the FBI said in its alert.
>
>U.S. authorities said they did not know the intended target of the
>planned plot.
>U.S. officials also said they did not know what method might be used
>to carry out the attack, which was supposed to occur "on or around"
>Feb. 12.
>
>"We know that a guy said that he talked to a guy who talked to a guy
>who said that this guy might do something bad on today," said a U.S.
>official who did not want to be identified.
>
>"We also had heard similar things from some other means which I
>cannot discuss saying that somebody with a similar name was planning
>something bad around now," the official told Reuters.
>
>"The two of those things put together and the fact that the guy is a
>known associate of bad people makes one cautious."
Wow, glad they clarified that.
Does this serve any purpose but to scare us all into dutiful submission?
Doug