Latest Terror Threat in US Aimed to Poison Food

Latest Terror Threat Aimed at Salad Bars
CBS News reports: CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports the latest terror attack to America involves the possible use of poisons - simultaneous attacks targeting hotels and restaurants at many locations over a single weekend. A key Intelligence source has confirmed the threat as “credible.” Department of Homeland Security officials, along with members of the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, have briefed a small group of corporate security off...

DHS Uncovers Plot to Poison Food in U.S. Hotels and Restaurants
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has discovered a plot to poison food in U.S. hotels and restaurants, CBS News reports. The plot, uncovered earlier this year, involved the simultaneous poisoning of food served in hotels and restaurants across the U.S. over a single weekend. Two different poisons, ricin and cyanide, would be slipped into Salad Bars and buffets. According to CBS, a "key intelligence source" confirmed that the threat was "credible." So credible, in fact, that the DHS, Dep...

Latest Terror Threat Aimed to 'Poison Food'...
Exclusive: The Dept. of Homeland Security Uncovered a Plot to Attack Hotels and Restaurants Over a Single Weekend Like this Story? Share it: CBS News Exclusive: The latest terror threat to America involves the possible use of poisons aimed at food in hotels and restaurants over a single weekend. Armen Keteyian reports. Department of Homeland Security officials uncovered a plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to poison food at hotels and restaurants in the United States. (CBS) (CBS) In this...

Terror Plot Aimed at Food in Hotels
(FOXNews.com) - The group behind last year’s failed Christmas Day bombing and the recent attempt to send two explosives-laden packages to the United States may be looking to attack U.S. food supplies, FOXNews.com reported Tuesday. A source with knowledge of the situation said authorities obtained information "a while ago" indicating a possible plot by associates of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to target food at hotels and restaurants inside the US, perhaps slipping harmful agen...

al-Qaeda Wants The Muj to Sh8t in Your Salad
WUSA9:WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) --- CBS News reports that the federal government is describing as credible an apparent al Qaeda threat to poison Salad Bars and buffets at American restaurants and hotels. The network reports the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies have already briefed representatives of the hotel and restaurant industries about the threat, which is apparently designed to include numerous poisonings over a short period of time in order to have a national i...

Islamic jihadists plotting to poison multiple U.S. buffets and salad bars
To "add a heavy economic burden to an already faltering economy." Will the Islamophobia never end? "U.S. buffets and Salad Bars 'threatened with poison attacks' by Al Qaeda group behind 'Ink Cartridge' Bomb Plot," from the Daily Mail, December 21 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): Al Qaeda Terrorists planned to poison food at multiple US hotels and restaurants over a single weekend, it has been revealed this morning. The 'credible' plot involved slipping the poisons cyanide and ricin into salad bars...

First They Came for the Applebees Salad Bar
If you thought Middle America was pissed when they hit the WTC, you ain’t seen nothing yet: Al Qaeda Terrorists planned to poison food at multiple US hotels and restaurants over a single weekend, it has been revealed this morning. The ‘credible’ plot involved slipping the poisons cyanide and ricin into Salad Bars and buffets, according to CBS News. The terrorist group behind the failed ‘Ink Cartridge’ attacks on cargo planes in October were said to have hatched th...

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Al Qaeda threatens the salad bar
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They Hate Us for Our Bloomin' Onions
Oh great. Now they'll install naked Body Scanners at Ruby Tuesday's. Al Qaeda Terrorists planned to poison food at multiple US hotels and restaurants over a single weekend, it has been revealed this morning. The ‘credible’ plot involved slipping the poisons cyanide and ricin into Salad Bars and buffets, according to CBS news. The terrorist group behind the failed ‘Ink Cartridge’ attacks on cargo planes in October were said to have hatched the plan. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

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DHS: Terrorists Might Poison Buffets
Giving a convenient shot in the arm to the on-again, off-again efforts to pass a “Food Safety bill,” the Department of Homeland Security is said to be looking into a plot by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to poison all you can eat buffets and Salad Bars. The plot, which was revealed by CBS, is said to involve slipping small amounts of poison into food at buffets, the latest in a long series of ridiculous sounding plots that have been hyped by the organization. AQAP has be...

Calif. plant adds pricey cow washer to fight germs
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