July 5, 200718 yr Mayport, JFK were terror targets, paper says By Zachary M. Peterson - Staff writer Posted : Thursday Jul 5, 2007 11:48:07 EDT A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened terrorist attacks at Naval Base Mayport, Fla., the British newspaper the Telegraph reported Thursday. British authorities discovered details of the threats on a Web site run by a “cyber-terrorist” gang, the newspaper account said. The group of 45 doctors, which investigators believe have no link with the recently detained doctors and medics involved with car bomb attempts in London and Glasgow, planned to “undertake jihad and take the battle inside America,” according to the story. The first target was supposed to be the “naval base that gives shelter to the ship Kennedy,” thought to be a reference to the carrier John F. Kennedy, the story said. The Kennedy was decommissioned at Mayport in March. The message mentioned attacking strip clubs near the base and using six Chevrolet GT cars, three fishing boats and rocket-propelled grenades to blow up petroleum tanks, the Telegraph reported. A Navy spokesman at the Pentagon acknowledged the sea service was aware of the reports but would make no further comment. The threats were posted on a Web site run by three young radical Muslims, who were set to be sentenced by British authorities as the first defendants to be convicted of “inciting terrorist murder” on the Internet, the account stated. The three defendants were students in their early 20s, the paper said. They created chat forums to direct fighters to Iraq and discuss bomb attacks around the world. Films of hostages and beheadings were discovered by police, the Telegraph report noted. Find Navy Times article here.
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