- WASHINGTON (MENL) - The CIA
has concluded that the United States will be rocked by a major attack from
Islamic insurgents.
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- Officials said U.S. intelligence has assessed that the
attack would probably come from Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden or his allies.
They said the Bin Laden operation would seek to match the suicide attacks
on New York and Washington on Sept. 11.
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- Such an attack, officials said, is likely to once again
target New York or Washington. Over the last two weeks, the FBI, which
works with the CIA in the Counter-Terrorist Center, has issued two warnings
of terrorist attacks. The agency said it obtained information that insurgents
have targeted banks and shopping malls in northeastern United States.
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- "Now for the hard truth," CIA Deputy Director
for Operation James Pavitt said. "Despite the best efforts of so much
of the world, the next terrorist attack -- it's not a question of if, it's
a question of when. The threat that we face today from global terrorism
is real, it's immediate, and it is unlike any other we have faced before.
I say this from 30 years of experience in an intelligence function."
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