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FBI issues confidential terror alert
November 15, 2002
By DAVID JOHNSTON And ERIC LICHTBLAU The New York Times
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies came under renewed attack in Congress on Thursday for failing to find Osama bin Laden, with the increasing certainty that he is still alive prompting senior Democratic senators to brand the effort to dismantle al-Qaida as a failure. As even Bush administration officials took the FBI to task for a warning issued on Wednesday about possible attacks on hospitals, the FBI on Thursday issued a vague and alarming alert to state and local law enforcement agencies warning that this week’s message from bin Laden, intelligence reports and recent overseas strikes by al-Qaida had raised the threat of “spectacular attacks” in the United States. “In selecting its next targets,” the FBI alert said, “sources suggest al-Qaida may favor spectacular attacks that meet several criteria: high symbolic value, mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy, and maximum psychological trauma. The highest priority targets remain within the aviation, petroleum, and nuclear sectors as well as significant national landmarks.” Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, charged that the Bush administration has been distracted from the fight against terrorism by the preparation for a possible invasion of Iraq. “They are so focused on Iraq that they aren’t paying adequate attention to the war on terror,” he said in an interview. Graham added that U.S. intelligence should undertake a crash program to identify and take action against terrorist threats in advance of any military action in Iraq “before the threat level truly does spike when we don’t have enough time.”

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Thursday underscored concerns that the United States could face increased dangers of terrorist attack if President Bush orders military action against Iraq.

*****Well - Duh!!?!***** Is this a contra-indication of power or just plain old arrogance?

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 9:02 AM