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(Reuters) - The FBI has warned local authorities of a threat that Islamic State militants would blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.
The bridge is a major route connecting Tennessee and Arkansas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation passed the threat on to local police in a bulletin out of an "abundance of caution," spokesman Chris Allen said.
"This is an unsubstantiated, anonymous threat," he said, adding that there was no useful intelligence arising from it.
Allen had no details on when the threat was received or how. The warning was reported by Fox13 News in Memphis.
The television station quoted the FBI warning as saying that according to an anonymous tipster, Islamic State had instructed a person in Memphis "to blow up the Memphis-Arkansas bridge on an unknown date, activating ISIS terror cells in the United States."
(Reuters) - The FBI has warned local authorities of a threat that Islamic State militants would blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.
originally posted by: intrptr
(Reuters) - The FBI has warned local authorities of a threat that Islamic State militants would blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.
Whatever floats their terror alert boat.
All one has to do is ram it with a big enough barge to bring it down. Even 'Terrs' know that.
False Alarm.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
originally posted by: intrptr
(Reuters) - The FBI has warned local authorities of a threat that Islamic State militants would blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.
Whatever floats their terror alert boat.
All one has to do is ram it with a big enough barge to bring it down. Even 'Terrs' know that.
False Alarm.
Or kick it, from the looks of it. One swift kick and suddenly we're on alert for people with well-developed thighs and some degree of soccer/football training.
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014, in an online breaking news article from the Chicago Tribune's online edition, through wire reports, it was stated that,: "The FBI had warned local authorities of a threat that Islamic State militants would blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge" in an anonymous and unsubstantiated threat.
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