This'll Guarantee a Warm Welcome for Bush's Convention

Oh, brother, is this gonna be one pissed off city when it reads the morning paper...

Terror alert based on old intel
But authorities continue to think the U.S. is at risk
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON
New York Times

Much of the information that led authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was 3 or 4 years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said Monday.

Authorities reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terror plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way.

But the officials continued to regard the information as significant and troubling because the reconnaissance already conducted has provided al-Qaida with the knowledge necessary to carry out attacks against the sites in Manhattan, Washington and Newark, N.J.