Warns Officials To Look for People Wearing Bulky Jackets on Warm Days; Smell of Chemicals; Trailing Wires from Jackets Bombers May Disguise Selves As Pregnant Women

New York - The FBI has disseminated to 18,000 law enforcement agencies an intelligence bulletin advising police officials to be on the lookout for suicide bombers attempting to strike inside the US, TIME's Elaine Shannon reports today on TIME.com. The lightly classsified bulletin, headlined "Possible suicide bomber indicators," and circulated earlier today (May 20) via the FBO's secure Law Enforcement Online (LEO) Intranet, warns local badge-carriers to look for obvious signs of trouble - people wearing heavy, bulky jackets on warm days, smelling of chemicals, trailing wires from their jackets - and, as well, more subtle ones, such as tightly clenched fists. Someone who never shows his palms could be gripping a detonator rigged to go off when a button is released. "If you shoot him, you're still not safe because his hands relax and the bomb explodes," says a counter-terrorism official, TIME reports.

The FBI bulletin also notes that suicide bombers may disguise themselves in stolen military, police or firefighter's garb or as pregnant women, TIME reports.

Are we at Elmo level yet? :eek:

Pregnant Women...Huh? So my wife is a terrorist! :(

Don't worry, dude. I've notified the proper authorities. You're wife won't be bombing any Starbucks any time soon. . .

If we are at risk of suicide bombers, then the war against Iraq has failed. Bush said in speeches, as did Wolfie, Rummie, Rove, Ashwipe, and Cheney that invading Iraq would make us safer....make the region more stable....would display a vibrant and affluent democracy to the rest of the middle east....would apprehend all those terrorists training in Iraq.....would prevent a mushroom cloud over an American city.

These durn hawks, one minute war will make us safe....the next minute Danger Will Robinson. :drink: