Terrorist attack targeting U.S. trains bared by intel report

A terrorist attack was reportedly being planned by Al-Qaeda around early 2010 a decade after the September 11 attacks in New York.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the terrorist attack plot was discovered from documents and computer files from the Pakistan compound where they killed Osama Bin Laden. The agency warned local law enforcement officials in the United States about the information.

Department of Homeland Security spokesman Matthew Chandler told Bloomberg that they "have no information of any imminent terrorist threat to the U.S. rail sector, but wanted to make our partners aware of the alleged plotting."

U.S. Navy Seals raided the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Bin Laden has been hiding. The Al-Qaeda leader was killed along with a handful of men protecting him. He has been buried at sea according to Muslim customs and also said to be because the U.S. does not want his tomb to become a shrine.

Fears of a terrorist attack to avenge the death of Bin Laden has prompted security officials in the U.S. and around the world to step up security measures especially in public places and transportation hubs.

Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked two jet planes and flew them into the World Trade Center buildings in New York, toppling the famous landmarks and symbol of U.S. power and affluence. The infamous terrorist attack also involved a plane that hit the Pentagon and a fourth who was downed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers fought the hijackers.

The intelligence report said that Al-Qaeda operatives planned to derail an unidentified rail track in the U.S. so that trains will fall off a bridge or down into a valley. The plot is said to be executed at the time of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack.