- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
FBI, after investigating a claim of a possible July 4 attack on Las Vegas,
said on Saturday that it had no evidence of any credible threat to a particular
U.S. city or region on the holiday.
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- "Currently, we are not in receipt of any credible
information which targets any specific area of the United States on or
around July 4," FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said.
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- The FBI said Friday it was taking seriously a Lebanese-born
man's claims to have overheard a cell phone conversation in Arabic about
a possible July 4 attack on Las Vegas.
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- Michael Hamdan said he heard the speakers discussing
a "hit" on the "day of freedom," which he interpreted
to mean the U.S. Independence Day.
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- Bresson said Hamdan, a Las Vegas businessman, was given
a like detector test but the spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation
declined to discuss the results.
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- Hamdan said he was driving down Las Vegas Boulevard last
Saturday when he tried to dial his wife on his cell phone. He did not get
through and was about to hang up when he heard voices speaking Arabic.
He stayed on the line to listen.
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- According to Hamdan, the speakers said: "We are
here in the city of corruption. We are here in the city of gambling and
prostitution, the city of the unbelievers. ... We are going to hit them
on the day of freedom."
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