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Ashcroft: al-Qaida Close to New Attack
2004-05-27
WASHINGTON (AP) - Al-Qaida is close to completing its avowed plan to strike America again with a major attack, according to top U.S. law enforcement officials who want the public's help in locating seven terror operatives labeled a "clear and present danger" by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Ashcroft said a steady stream of "disturbing" intelligence, collected for months, indicates that could mean terrorists already are in the United States to execute the plan, though he acknowledged there is no new information indicating when, where or how an attack might happen. "We do believe that al-Qaida plans to attack the United States, and that is a result of intelligence that is corroborated at a variety of levels," Ashcroft said at a news conference Wednesday with FBI Director Robert Mueller. There was no immediate plan to raise the nation's terror threat level, now at yellow, the midpoint of the five-level warning system.

Six of the al-Qaida operatives, including two Canadian citizens, whose photos and backgrounds were highlighted Wednesday have been the subject of FBI pursuit for months. The seventh, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 25, is a U.S. citizen who grew up on a California goat farm and converted to Islam as a teenager. He was described by Mueller as having attended al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and served as an al-Qaida translator.
Goat farmer, ya say?
Each of the suspects, Ashcroft said, presents "a clear and present danger" to the United States because of their language skills, familiarity with U.S. culture and ability to travel under multiple aliases and use forged documents. Ashcroft said al-Qaida has made adjustments to its tactics to escape easy detection, such as having operatives travel with their families to lower their profiles and recruiting people who can pass for having European ethnicity rather than Middle Eastern backgrounds. Ashcroft acknowledged there is no new intelligence about the suspects indicating they are in the United States or part of a specific al-Qaida plot.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Re #4:

But Dear Leader Bill and Great Leader Hillary were Gods Come in the Flesh (all genuflect and burn the pinch of incense before their divine images) and Gods Can Do No Wrong!

"Morals are for Men... Not... GODS!"
-- Second pilot for Original Star Trek

"SYSTEM-LORD APOPHIS IS A GOD! AND I AM HIS LOYAL JEFFAH!"
-- from an episode of Stargate SG-1
Posted by: Anonymous5031   2004-05-28 1:00:10 PM  

#4  Come on, guys--SCREW THEM!
If Bush fed the 5,000 and walked on water, they'd still say it was "no big deal."
President Bush can handle it and so can we.
And we know what the LLL and the Dims have to offer, how do you think we got 9/11, the Cole, the first WTC bombing, the African embassy bombings, the attempt on GWB's dad, and the Khobar Towers attack?
All happened under the Clintoon Administration with the help of Billary's enablers in the partisan media.
Posted by: Jen   2004-05-27 12:07:31 PM  

#3  Doc and JerseyMike---Even if we are hit, the LLL will use it as a tool to attack Bush, rather than rally behind our leader. It's bloody suicidal.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-05-27 12:03:18 PM  

#2  Doc, that's exactly the case. To the left Bush can do no right.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2004-05-27 11:38:46 AM  

#1  My bet: five seconds after we're hit again, the same liberals who blame Bush for curtailing their rights will complain that he didn't do enough to protect them . . .
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-05-27 9:53:17 AM  

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