September 23, 2009
Alerts intensify in terror probe ; Recent updates are 'prudent,' feds say
by Kevin Johnson
USA Today
WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities have issued an unusual flurry of bulletins to police departments across the country warning that sports stadiums, entertainment complexes, hotels and transit systems could be targets of terrorist attacks.
At least four dispatches from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were issued from Friday through Monday night as a national terrorism investigation that stretched from New York City to Denver intensified.
"While DHS and FBI have no information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack, we believe it is prudent to raise the security awareness of our local law enforcement partners regarding the targets and tactics of previous terrorist activity," the two agencies said in a statement Tuesday.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the FBI and DHS have issued hundreds of similar bulletins. The recent series of bulletins touch the largest variety of potential targets at one time since President Obama took office in January.
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