A terrorist manifesto?

Ed Quillen
Denver Post Columnist

July 02, 2002

As Americans prepare to celebrate a rare Thursday holiday, high-ranking officials in the Bush administration announced their discovery of a major new terrorism threat.

"This rates at least a bright orange, and it could turn red in an instant," according to George Hanover, an official in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security.

Hanover explained that the alert was based on the FBI's discovery of a document that had been circulating on the Internet, and perhaps in other places.

"The document is quite specific," he said, "and it could be construed to call for violent action on this continent, and it might also involve suicide bombers backed by a well-financed organization with international connections."

Pressed for details, Hanover said that the originators of the document had "pledged their lives," which indicated a self-destructive willingness to die for their cause, as well as "their fortunes," which FBI analysts interpret as "signifying that they are people of some means, or else they would be talking about something other than their fortunes."

Hanover said he would not reveal other specific wording from the document, at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney's request, which was also passed on to press associations and the broadcast and cable news channels, came about because he feared that terrorists might use some of the precise phrases in the document as "triggers to activate some of their sleeper cells."

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