Website claims 7 NFL stadiums to be attacked

[pats1]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/nfl/10/18/stadium.threats.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

Government doubtful of NFL threats
Posted: Wednesday October 18, 2006 4:00PM
Updated: Wednesday October 18, 2006 4:13PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Web site is claiming that seven National Football League gridiron stadiums will be attacked with radiological dirty bombs this weekend, but the U.S. government on Wednesday expressed doubts about the threat.

The threat, posted Oct. 12, was part of an ongoing Internet conversation titled "New Attack on America Be Afraid." It mentioned NFL stadiums in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland, where games are scheduled to be held this weekend.

The Homeland Security Department alerted authorities and stadium owners in those cities, as well as the NFL, of the Web message but said the threat was being viewed "with strong skepticism." Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said there was no intelligence that indicated such an attack was imminent, and that the alert was "out of an abundance of caution."

"The department strongly encourages the public to continue to go about their plans, including attending events that involve large public gatherings such as football games," Knocke said.

The FBI also expressed doubt about the threat.

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[Brownfan80]

What message board was THAT threat on? Holy carp.

 

[edgecy]

I hope they take this seriously. An attack on a stadium easily eclipsed the tragedy in NYC and at the Pentagon.

Let's to a happy and safe weekend.

 

[BelichickFan]

I guess they must mean in the parking lot - it would be impossible to search every car going into the parking lot but impossible to get a radiological bomb inside a stadium. I would make a comment about the people who would do this . . . but I'd better not - except to say I hate the mother f*ckers.

 

[Brownfan80]

I hope they take this seriously. An attack on a stadium easily eclipsed the tragedy in NYC and at the Pentagon.

Let's to a happy and safe weekend.

It's hard to wrap your head around it due to the symbology of the attack in NY, but you're completely right. The loss of life would easily eclipse that of the 9/11 attack if it was successfully pulled off. And the fear it would instill would be far greater, IMO.

How many people work in giant sky scrapers or aspire to.. A large number maybe.. but.. How many people attend sporting events. Far larger number. Far larger 'fear effect', imo.

 

[BelichickFan]

I dont know if this thread belongs here, or in the political forum..or maybe ALL our forums just to warn people that thgis threat does exist.

You showed remarkable restraint in not polticizing this. The meds must have taken effect already

I think it would be tough to get bombs inside seven stadiums. And if inside is the goal, the fact that four of the games are at 1pm eastern and the other three are at 4pm would put a big crimp in their plans.

 

[PATSNUTme]

I dont think it would be that difficult, if they really wanted to do it.

First, the security pat down at the gates are ridiculous. Half the people gong in are carry flasks, or coozies with bottles, cans, etc.... and all kinds of stuff under their pants, etc.

Second, there are all kiunds of people going into the stadium before games, refreshment personnel, TV people, camerapeople, media, , security, etc, many carrying tools of their trades.

I doubt that it would be difficult for a terrorist to take the place of one of these people and carry something in past security.

I certainly hope not, but we are not as well protected as you would like to believe.

The ports, for example, have millions of un inspected containers arriviing all the time.

People can come across the Mexican and Canadian border at all sorts of location without being seen.

Getting someting into an NFL stdium would not be that difficult if they really wanted to do it and had the ability to get it done.

I dont know if this thread belongs here, or in the political forum..or maybe ALL our forums just to warn people that thgis threat does exist.

This certainly does not belong on the political forum unless want to start a separate one over there. Hopefully we will keep politics out of this, which you have.

I just saw on sportsline that the threat does not sound credible at this time.

 

[SaCaCh]

Dirty bombs are large and ugly looking things, no way you "sneak" one into a stadium. Vehicle type thing only.

On the plus side no one wants to bomb Buffalo!

 

[psychoPat]

Sporting of mass murderers
to give fair warning.

Doncha think?

Next time ... no more Mr. Nice Guy!

 

[Tunescribe]

On the plus side no one wants to bomb Buffalo!

Any truth to the rumor that after this report came out, the NFL advised Raiders security not to frisk anyone this weekend?

 

[Pats726]

I do not know about the size of these things as compared to other nuclear devices..or whether there are dogs or other means available..but I agree..this could be worse, much worse and I certainly hope that extra means are taken into account in all stadiums.

 

[Murphys95]

Dirty bombs are large and ugly looking things, no way you "sneak" one into a stadium. Vehicle type thing only.

On the plus side no one wants to bomb Buffalo!

I agree. Large amounts of explosives require a large medium, and a proximity to the stadium itself. Not impossible -- but very difficult to pull off. As for a dirty bomb, same issue, a large explosion needed to disperse the radioactive material.

On the same note, I have zero fear of attending the Patriots game this Sunday. No place I'd rather be, threat or no threat.

 

[Terry Glenn is a cowgirl]

This isn't really related... but, my friend was just talking to a chick that is a jetter (Airforce) at Malmstrom AFB. She was saying that just the missles alone in the state of Montana has the nuclear power of blowing up the world...3 times.

This is just in Montana alone.

HMMMM...

 

[njpatsfan]

The thing that concerns me most about this 'public' threat is that it may be a form of misdirection for a real attack ....

R

 

[VJCPatriot]

Even if it doesn't sound credible they should take extra precautions. We need to learn from our mistakes. Didn't our national security blow off the threats to the impending attack at NYC?

Just recently a terror plot to put liquid bombs (where two chemicals had to be mixed for the bomb to go off) aboard airplanes was foiled. I don't know if dirty bombs are feasible but the security at those threatened stadiums should be tightened and on the lookout for them.

 

[RayClay]

http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=fae2ca3b-ba78-4fff-8f29-c43938709e8c&k=97921

The warnings made their way to U.S. authorities after an article from the independent news website, canadafreepress.com, appeared on the Internet chat forum, thefriendsociety.com.

The article: "Next Attack Imminent: Muslims ordered to leave the United States," mentions a pending attack from a naturalized U.S. citizen, and was posted in the forum under the conversation titled, "New Attack on America Be Afraid."


The Friend Society Forums
the friend society is an internet humor corporation no jerks allowed.
thefriendsociety.com/forum/index.php

Someone's idea of a joke?

 

[PlattsFan]

Not so. One-tenth of a gram of a plutonium, say, from the Jimmy Carter-financed North Korean nuclear program, is enough to poison over 1 milion people (or 50,000 twenty times over).

And that, my friend, is politicizing this discussion. Didn't take long.

I wouldn't take this too seriously. A post on a Canadian chat room? Not exactly a Presidential Daily Briefing on the subject ...

No sense living in fear.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Even if it doesn't sound credible they should take extra precautions. We need to learn from our mistakes. Didn't our national security blow off the threats to the impending attack at NYC?

Just recently a terror plot to put liquid bombs (where two chemicals had to be mixed for the bomb to go off) aboard airplanes was foiled. I don't know if dirty bombs are feasible but the security at those threatened stadiums should be tightened and on the lookout for them.

IIRC there were several lawsuits over enhanced security at stadiums by people who didn't want to be frisked. Some courts sided with the individuals
resisting the pat downs. Whatever your political beliefs, in a post 9/11 world, it makes sense to make sure that some idiot trying to make a name for himself or his cause doesn't have several pounds of explosives stapped to his vest by searching him before he/she gets in the venue.

http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9576028

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2526638
Just my $0.02,

 

[edgecy]

It's hard to wrap your head around it due to the symbology of the attack in NY, but you're completely right. The loss of life would easily eclipse that of the 9/11 attack if it was successfully pulled off. And the fear it would instill would be far greater, IMO.

How many people work in giant sky scrapers or aspire to.. A large number maybe.. but.. How many people attend sporting events. Far larger number. Far larger 'fear effect', imo.

I am by no means saying that an attack on a stadium is more symbolic than attacks on WTC and the Pentagon. Not saying that those two attacks were small or anything. Strictly speaking from the numbers of casualty. 9/11 we lost 3000+ lives, but at a stadium, it's easily 60,000+ and those are just the spectators, not counting people that work at the game.

 

[njpatsfan]

I am by no means saying that an attack on a stadium is more symbolic than attacks on WTC and the Pentagon. Not saying that those two attacks were small or anything. Strictly speaking from the numbers of casualty. 9/11 we lost 3000+ lives, but at a stadium, it's easily 60,000+ and those are just the spectators, not counting people that work at the game.

Remember, we were 'lucky' on 9/11 - 16,000 people who worked in the Towers escaped.

As someone who witnessed the towers' burining, I'm constantly amazed at how complacent people have become.

The next attacks (and sadly, I think this is inevitable) will be even worse, now that rogue nations have or are about to have nuclear capability.

R