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Tentativas vistas como o modelo para ataques novos em ESTADOS UNIDOS. Solo
Quinta-feira, julho 5o, 2007
Por Karen DeYoung O terrorista que seguinte o assalto nos Estados Unidos é provável vir com os ataques relativamente unsophisticated, próximo-simultâneos - similares àqueles tentados em Grâ Bretanha sobre o fim de semana - projetou mais provocar medo difundido e apavorar-se do que para causar perdas de vida principais, ESTADOS UNIDOS. os oficiais da inteligência e do counterterrorism acreditam. Tais ataques requerem a perícia e o treinamento mínimos e são difíceis de impedir. Embora os investigators britânicos não reivindicassem a participação do al-Qaeda nos incidents os mais atrasados, os oficiais aqui disseram que podem constituir um fenômeno “hybrid”, em que al-Qaeda inspira e grupos locais das guias de afar mas não estabelece nenhuma ligação operacional ou logistical visível. A conexão, diversos oficiais ditos, é feita através de uma rede crescente dos intermediaries e das filiais do al-Qaeda que são removidos distante da liderança da organização. “O que é uma ligação direta?” perguntado um oficial do counterterrorism. “É correios? Mensageiros?” ESTADOS UNIDOS. os oficiais “dos povos muito sênior” sobre abaixo, disse ele, estão prestando atenção como o trabalho britânico para reconstruct os ataques e para seguir sua origem. Em um memorando interno intitulado “permanecer no alvo,” Diretor Michael V. do CIA. Hayden empregados ditos da agência ontem em que “eventos Grâ Bretanha desde o último saque de sexta-feira como um lembrete - se nós necessitamos sempre um que este remanesce um mundo perigoso e isso nosso trabalho em defender América é tão importante quanto sempre.” Os incidents em Inglaterra e em Scotland, oficiais do counterterrorism ditos, coincidem com os ESTADOS UNIDOS recentes. a inteligência que indica o movimento stepped-up do dinheiro e dos povos dos acampamentos do al-Qaeda no ungoverned áreas tribais de Paquistão, perto da beira Afghan. Diverso sénior ESTADOS UNIDOS. militar os oficiais eram agudamente ontem crítico de o que viram como o unwillingness do governo Pakistani se mover forcefully de encontro aos acampamentos e aos ESTADOS UNIDOS. falha da administração pressionar Paquistão para curtail mais duramente o que se se chamou um terrorista de “a indústria crescimento.” O al-Qaeda's “presença nas áreas tribais não foi este seguro desde antes de 9/11,” um ESTADOS UNIDOS sênior. o oficial da inteligência militar escreveu em um E-mail. O memorando de Hayden pareceu projetado rally suas tropas na cara do criticism morale-deadening dirigido na comunidade da inteligência em anos recentes. Accused of incompetence for failing to warn of the September 2001 attacks and for providing faulty intelligence on Iraq, it is also charged with overzealous anti-terrorism efforts that see al-Qaeda operatives under every bed. “Even as we deal with the current threat,” Hayden’s memo said, “it is hard not to notice the growing debates on both sides of the Atlantic about certain aspects of the war on terrorism: Guantanamo, habeas corpus, detentions, renditions, electronic surveillance, etc. For us, though, the choices are pretty clear: We will use all of our lawful authorities to defend America and her friends. “Some say elements of the current debate reflect the thinking of a pre-9/11 world,” the short memo concluded. “Don’t worry about that. Keep your eye on our objective. For all of us at CIA, today’s date is clear: It’s always September 12th.” After the events in Britain, U.S. officials have tried to strike a balance between insisting that “we do not currently have any specific threat information that is credible about a particular attack in the United States,” as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday, and asking Americans to keep a careful watch on their surroundings. Although the Department of Homeland Security did not raise the threat level, Chertoff and other officials said that security and surveillance have been increased in several ways, including the placement of more U.S. marshals on flights to Britain and other European destinations. Officials said the weekend’s events had only heightened existing concerns. “It’s not just what happened in England and Scotland that has us watching,” another counterterrorism official said. “We have had some concerns for some time.” On Jan. 22, the Holland Tunnel in New York was evacuated for several hours after a suspicious package was spotted after an accident. Hazardous-materials teams were brought in, and the package was blown up by a robot before the tunnel was reopened. In Georgetown on Saturday night, some restaurants and nightclubs were evacuated after firefighters spotted an abandoned backpack on a sidewalk. And on Sunday afternoon, police set up checkpoints on the access route into Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, stopping some cars and trucks for inspection. A senior administration official acknowledged that recent arrests of groups charged with plotting terrorist attacks in Miami and at Fort Dix, N.J., and John F. Kennedy International Airport, as well as the arrest of a man charged with planning to detonate an explosive device in an Illinois shopping mall, have “come under a great deal of criticism for not being serious.” But the official saw some vindication for U.S. law enforcement in the British plots. “Remember that the FBI and the law enforcement community have done important work in nipping these cells in the bud so that we don’t get to the stage of cars pouring into an airport terminal,” the official said. Saying that the British incidents “certainly appeared to be al-Qaeda-inspired,” the official said they were more of a “reminder” of an ongoing threat in this country than an indication that similar attacks are imminent here. Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University, said he considered al-Qaeda involvement likely in the British incidents and disagreed with those who labeled the attacks amateurish. “They didn’t work, but I think of all the al-Qaeda plots we’ve seen, their sophistication is in their simplicity. They used available materials. Where they tripped up is in the detonation of the devices. That’s a trickier business.” The alleged perpetrators under arrest in Britain — two of them physicians — pose a challenge for both British and U.S. intelligence officials. The doctors’ names did not appear on any U.S. list of people with suspected terrorist ties, U.S. officials said. Al-Qaeda has made a “strategic investment” in Britain in recent years, Hoffman said, creating ties to an infrastructure of individuals and groups that are difficult to fit into an intelligence profile. By drawing from a large reservoir of potential operatives, Hoffman said, al-Qaeda is attempting to “break any attempt at profiles, and also to demonstrate the diversity of their movement.” Have Your Say: Attempts Seen As Model for New Attacks On U.S. Soil Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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