Law Enforcement should be on the lookout for suspicious activity regarding fuel tanker trucks. The FBI is warning that there is a threat that terrorists may be planning to or have stolen fuel tanker trucks and plan to use them as weapons to strike local Jewish neighborhoods and Jewish synagogues. The FBI advisory also lists fuel depots as potential targets.
On another note, The FBI is still investigating a Nevada man’s claim that he picked up a conversation in Arabic on his cell phone.
“We have a full-scale investigation to determine if this constitutes a threat, and if so, what kind of threat,” FBI Special Agent Daron Borst in Las Vegas said. He said Friday that the FBI is taking the allegations “very seriously.” Borst said agents have interviewed the man who reported the conversation, Michael Hamdan, and planned to question him again Friday.
Hamdan said he was trying to call his wife on his cell phone Saturday when he heard Arabic voices. Hamdan, 54, said he’s a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Lebanon and speaks Arabic. “They said in Arabic, not even a word of English, ‘We are in the city of corruption, the city of prostitution, the city of gambling, the city of unbelievers,’” Hamdan said late Thursday. “‘We are going to hit them on the day of freedom.’” Hamdan has offered to take a polygraph test to verify.
Source: FBI, MSNBC, Police1
Priority Level (1 = Lowest, 5 = Highest)
- National Level 3
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