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Summary A United States official has said that Al Qaeda was planning attacks on trains inside the US.
The official said that material seized from Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladens compound in Pakistan showed that his network pondered strikes on the US trains on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) advised the law enforcement agencies in a bulletin, “As of February 2010, Al Qaeda was allegedly contemplating conducting an operation against trains at an unspecified location in the United States on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001,According to the department, Al Qaeda was looking into trying to tip a train by tampering with the rails so that the train would fall off the track at either a valley or a bridge,While it is clear there was some level of planning, we have no recent information to indicate an active ongoing plot to target transportation and no information on possible locations or specific targets, the bulletin said.Sources said that the warning arose from intelligence seized in the raid on Bin Ladens fortified compound in which the elite US commandos shot him dead and gathered computer hardware and other material.
