WASHINGTON, June 21: The FBI warned on Friday that terrorists may be interested in using fuel tanker trucks for attacks in the United States or against US interests overseas.

In the latest of a series of warnings since the Sept 11 attacks, FBI officials said the precise targets were unknown, but it could be fuel depots or Jewish schools or synagogues.

The officials said the FBI prepared an advisory to police and law enforcement officers around the country on the possible threat, citing “uncorroborated information” it had received.

The FBI said law enforcement agencies should “make contact with appropriate Jewish community representatives and officials at trucking and fuel delivery facilities that operate fuel tanker trucks or commercial fueling stations and emphasize the need to report suspicious activity or persons.”

In New York, Shomrim Patrol, a 200-member citizen’s unarmed patrol that monitors Jewish neighborhoods in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Flatbush, shrugged off the warning.

“As of my experience, I don’t think it’s a threat,” said Mendel Rosenberg, a long-time dispatcher for Shomrin. The citizen’s group works with the New York Police Department.

“Personally, I don’t believe these things anyway. They shouldn’t say these things, it gives people ideas,” Rosenberg said.—Reuters