Anonymous tips have a way of sparking speculation, particularly when the FBI and ISIS are involved. Today, the panic is centered around an aging bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.
The FBI says it heard of an “unsubstantiated, anonymous threat” to the bridge which might conceivably be ISIS-related, and even though they admitted there was no intelligence to support it, they’re going with it out of an “abundance of caution.”
The FBI said the anonymous tipster told them ISIS had instructed an unknown person in Memphis to blow up the aging Memphis & Arkansas Bridge at an unknown date.
Despite a flurry of speculation about ISIS cells in the US, ISIS has never actually carried out a successful attack inside the United States. The group has threatened to do so, however, since the US began attacking them earlier this year.
Oh yeah, the dreaded "random, semi-anonymous bridge somewhere deep in the middle of the US" threat. Big time ISIS target material for sure. No wonder they were scared.
About a year after no such things happen…Neocons can claim it's 'cause the USg did such-a-good-job. E.g., surely someone at GTMO knew-all-about-it.
More bogus info churned out by the USG propaganda machine.
As always, the corporate media flunkies will run with this
ridiculous crap. Oboomer probably blamed ISIS for a recent
multi-car pile up on the DC Beltway.
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"Abundance of caution", what a joke! Abundance of stupidity is more accurate. Typical government half-wits.
Was it also out of an abundance of caution that Alfreda the Torture Queen Bikowsky didn't let anyone know there were terrorists on US soil up to no good?
"The FBI said the anonymous tipster told them ISIS had instructed an unknown person in Memphis to blow up the aging Memphis & Arkansas Bridge at an unknown date."
(aging Memphis &Arkansas ridge)?
Some one or ones want a spanking new bridge?
Focus here for the next false flag attack.
It might be worthwhile to look into the insurance situation with this 'aging bridge', and determine if there is a substantial payment clause that covers 'acts of terrorism' and who is slated to receive such payment, if one would be forthcoming. With the claim of a terrorist plot, if the bridge comes down the governing authority is relieved of the cost of maintenance while enjoying a cash windfall. Shades of the WTC?
or if the call came from the cellphone belonging to the son of a a CEO of a mid west civil engineering firm.
If they were going to do an act of terrorism on our soil, you'd think they would have loftier goals. Or the propaganda machine needs oiling.
Actually, I've always considered bridges across the Mississippi to be prime terror targets. This one is old and there are alternative routes (according to Wikipedia it only carries about 50,000 cars a day), but any disruption of trans-Mississippi traffic on major highways like I-55 would have larger economic consequences than one might think at first blush.
Not enough fear.