WASHINGTON - A newsletter of information released by the US authorities Friday warned one of al-Qaeda potentially with a vehicle to stage an attack on the city of New York or Washington, D.C., some time around the 10th commemoration of September 11, 2001.
US officials are seeking a "handful of potential operators" and a smaller subset that perhaps understand citizens Americans or legal permanent residents, national security officials say Fox News.
The authorities who spoke the Wall Street Journal that three people are suspected in the plot. Two of the three are supposed to be citizens of the United States, while one is perhaps already in the country.
An improvised explosive device attached to a car would be similar to that used by Faisal Shahzad, who attempts to attack Times Square in 2010; such attacks can involve cooperatives carrying U.S. documentation.
The attacks "could be intended to cause public panic and confusion among first responders" and show that the terror group is still relevant after a year of public losses, the newsletter of bed.
Since February 2010, al-Qaeda was interested in conducting a large-scale attack and it is believed that the killing of Osama bin Laden, the readings of the bulletin and the removal of several figures of the group can contribute to an attack on or around the anniversary.
Intelligence officials, said that the threat is specific to cars trapped at bridges and tunnels. Officials have warned of the possibility of individuals being already in the United States and sources said Fox News English and Arabic that they are looking for two or three possible suspects who speak.
As officials ramp their deterrence efforts, authorities urged are Americans to go about their business over the weekend of 11 September, but to be vigilant after federal authorities sent a warning late Thursday a threat "specific, credible".
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"The thing we are all concerned, this is what they call a" lone ranger,' a single actor, not a diet extremely complicated as it took to bring down the World Trade towers, "" said Biden, who appeared on three morning news shows.
President Obama was the first informed Thursday morning on the threat and has been updated through the day, source told Fox News. Officials were planning on providing additional briefings to the President Friday.
The White House has issued a statement indicating that the threat was credible and accurate, but also "confirmed".
"The President for the community to fight against terrorism to intensify their efforts in response to this credible but unconfirmed information," a White House official told Fox News.
Law enforcement officials were already on alert to any potential threat to the commemorative events marking 10 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, but the intelligence on the threat identified Thursday was described by an official as remarkable semblance "more ambitious".
Another top official U.S. with knowledge of the threat said that it was "sufficiently specific to arouse concern."
New York and Washington, D.C., under the Act have been taking additional measures to maintain the vigilance faced with the new alerts.
Sergeant Kim Schneider, a spokesman for the US Capitol Police, said people on the grounds of the Capitol or the area of the U.S. Capitol view will be "improvements in strategic security visible including more patrol (uniformed and undercover) officers," more police cruisers on the ground and deployments of our specialty units - as K9bomb squad, hazardous materials and SWAT.
Mayor of the city of New York Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo has advised that New Yorkers should go about their business and said the city planned by observation on Sunday will go on as planned.
"All New Yorkers should be careful and aware that we are preparing to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11," Cuomo said in a statement. "However, y is no reason to panic or to allow our spirit of freedom to be mitigated as us prepare you celebrate the opening of the site of Ground Zero the end of the week.".
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that the police of New York will be taken additional precautions in response to the threat of terror, including increasing its patrol by a third party, set up vehicle checkpoints and working closely with the FBI to obtain any additional information.
In Washington, police work 12-hour shifts, and head of the Police Cathy Lanier said unattended cars parked in unusual places may towed.
The details provided to Fox News suggested that chatter had indicated that the possible suspects were attached to Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the successor to and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda after U.S. seals out Osama bin Laden in the spring in Abbottabad, Pakistan. US forces found several elements in the ambitious plans suggesting compound of bin Laden for an attack to coincide with the anniversary of September 11. Authorities received a "General description" of two or three suspects possible but not necessarily have names, said a source.
The person who provided the intelligence is known to the American intelligence community and "has a track record," one source said.
The US authorities had been saying days that there is no known credible threats linked to the tenth of September 11 since the attacks. But when asked by reporters Thursday if it is still the case, Secretary of security inland Janet Napolitano appeared to hesitate.
"It is always the case that we do not have something which could reach this standard, but we still have a lot of chatter over there." "And we take seriously every bit of that and he track down", said Napolitano. "The date is significant because it is 9/11." But as I have said, in the world of intel, there are a lot of chatter and we take it serious.
"Is it y something that rises to the level where I have to issue a threat Advisory, we will issue a consultative threat."
A source pointed out that the authorities were in a similar scenario on the eve of the inauguration of the Obama in January 2009, when the intelligence suggested a specific threat against the inaugural events. Federal authorities have reacted quickly, but ultimately the intelligence proved to be a forgery.
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Fox News Ed Henry, Catherine Herridge, Jennifer Griffin, Mike Levine and Justin Fishel has contributed to this report.
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