Though much of the news reportedly retrieved from the bin Laden raid is not new, we can probably expect a lot more security on the train system. Homeland Security had already been rounding up families to search them after stepping off of trains and they've set up security in widely traveled train stations in South Florida. How long before it's full body searches before riding the metro or Amtrak? Fun times ahead in the new police state. NBC News:
The information about a possible train plot is the first intelligence revealed from the trove of material found in the attack on bin Laden's compound. Officials said they found what they call "aspirational" items — things al-Qaida operatives were interested in trying to make happen.
A government advisory obtained by NBC News and sent Tuesday to the rail industry said that as far back as February 2010, al-Qaida was contemplating "an operation against trains at an unspecified location in the United States on the 10th anniversary" of the 9/11 attacks.
One option, the advisory said, was trying to tip a train by tampering with the rails so that the train would fall off the track at either a valley or on a bridge. Such an attempt would probably only work once, the material in bin Laden's house said, because tilting or tampering with the rails would be spotted, the advisory said.
