Govt Warns Al Qaeda Planning Cyber-Attack Against US Stock Trading, Banking Website...

Reuters November 30, 2006 06:30 PM

The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, officials said.

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Video: Keith Olbermann blasts Newt Gingrich's 'sinister vision'

David Edwards and Mike SheehanPublished: Thursday November 30, 2006

In his latest "Special Comment" on MSNBC's Countdown, Keith Olbermann criticizes former House Speaker and potential '08 presidential contender Newt Gingrich's recent speech outlining his vision for America and the world--one that has ominous overtones of restrictions on freedom of speech and, as Olbermann describes it, amounts to fearmongering by "a cynical mind."

Olbermann says of Gingrich, "He offered the time-tested excuse trotted out by our demagogues since even before the Republic was founded: widespread death, of Americans, in America, possibly at the hands of Americans. But updated, now, to include terrorists using the Internet for recruitment. End result — 'losing a city.'

"The colonial English defended their repression with words like these. And so did the slave states. And so did the policemen who shot strikers. ... And so did those who interned Japanese-Americans. And so did those behind the Red Scare..."

A full transcript follows the video.