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U.S. Increased Alert on Evidence Qaeda was Planning Two Attacks

- (New York Times) James Risen - The government raised the national threat level last week after American intelligence obtained evidence that agents of al Qaeda might be positioning themselves to carry out two major attacks, one inside the United States, and a second in the Arabian Peninsula, government officials said Thursday. The intelligence showed that al Qaeda might actually have dispatched low-level operatives to conduct logistical or operational work needed to carry them out. A Bush administration official said that intercepts of telephone conversations, e-mail messages, and other intelligence indicating that terrorists had moved closer to an attack is one of the crucial considerations used by the new Homeland Security Department to determine when the threat level should be raised. Both CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Robert Mueller have given explicit warnings in recent days about possible al Qaeda attacks in the U.S. and overseas.
2003-02-14 00:00:00
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