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企图看作为模型为对美国的新的攻击。 土壤
星期四， 2007年7月5日
攻击在美国可能通过相对地不懂事故的下个恐怖分子，近同时攻击来-相似于在英国试图的那些在周末期间-设计更多挑衅普遍恐惧和恐慌比导致主要丧生，美国。 智力和反恐怖主义官员相信。 这样攻击要求最小的专门技术和训练并且是难防止。 虽然英国的调查员在最新的事件没要求阿尔凯达介入，这里官员认为他们也许构成“杂种”现象， 阿尔凯达 不启发和指南局部组从在远处，但建立可看见的操作或后勤链接。 联系，几位官员通过的阿尔凯达中介和会员一个增长的网络从组织的领导被去除认为，被建立。 “什么是一个直接链接？” 要求一位反恐怖主义官员。 “它是否是传讯者？ 信使？” 美国. 官员“从非常资深伙计”在下，他说，观看作为英国的工作重建攻击和追踪他们的起源。 在题为的一个内部备忘录“停留在目标”， CIA迈克尔· V.主任。 Hayden told agency employees yesterday that “events in 英国 从前次星期五担当提示-，如果我们需要-这保持一个危险世界，并且我们的工作在保卫美国是一样重要的象的一”。 事件在英国和苏格兰，反恐怖主义官员与最近美国认为，相符。 表明金钱的被加压的运动和人从阿尔凯达的智力在巴基斯坦的ungoverned部族地区野营，在阿富汗边界附近。 几前辈 美国. 军事 官员尖锐是什么的重要昨天他们看见了作为巴基斯坦政府的不情愿强有力地移动反对阵营和美国。 administration’s failure to press 巴基斯坦 艰苦削减什么你称恐怖分子“发展中的产业”。 阿尔凯达的“存在部族区域自9/11之前不是这安全的”，一资深美国。 军事情报官员在电子邮件写。 Hayden的备忘录看上去设计在士气抹杀的批评面前召集他的队伍近年来被指挥在情报机构。 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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