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| Obama adviser: There could be more mail bombs |
| 2010-10-31 |
| Obama's counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that we "have to presume" there might be more mail bombs like those in recent plots. Al-Qaeda is "still at war with us and we are very much at war with them," deputy national security adviser John Brennan said. "We're trying to get a better handle on what else may be out there," he said on Meet the Press. "We're trying to understand better what we may be facing." On CNN's State of the Union he said that "it would be very imprudent ... to presume that there are no others (packages) out there." He said the U.S. "will destroy [al-Qaeda in Yemen] as we are going to destroy the rest of al-Qaeda." Brennan said that whether the planes were the intended targets has yet to be determined. He said the two bombs were powerful enough to bring down a plane and were "very sophisticated". "They were self-contained. They were able to be detonated at a time of the terrorists' choosing," Brennan said. He also said that the National Transportation Safety Board was re-examining the UPS cargo jet that crashed in Dubai in September. UAE investigators said there was no evidence that an explosion caused that crash. |
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