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Major
Terrorist Strikes Likely
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U.S.
intelligence officials have told members of Congress there is
a high probability that terrorists associated with Osama bin
Laden will try to launch another major attack on American targets
here or abroad in the near future.
Based
on what officials described as credible new information, the
FBI and the CIA have assessed the chances of a second attempt
to attack the United States as very high, sources said yesterday.
At
a briefing Tuesday, in response to a senator's question about
the gravity of the threat, one intelligence official said there
is a "100 percent" chance of an attack should the
United States strike Afghanistan, according to sources familiar
with the briefing.
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Terrorists
Obtained Visas From American Consulates
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The
19 suspected hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks all
had obtained tourist or business visas from American consulates,
a U.S. official said yesterday, providing a clearer picture
of how the attackers exploited the U.S. border control system.
The
men triggered no alarm in the State Department's database of
inadmissible foreigners when they sought the visas, said the
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. All applicants
for U.S. visas are checked against the system.
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The
fact that foreign nationals could launch their strikes on New
York and Washington with such apparent ease has prompted fierce
questioning by Congress of the immigration and visa system.
Some lawmakers have proposed reducing the number of student
and business visas issued -- or even banning them temporarily.
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Muslim-Christian
Cooperation Meeting in Rome
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from article conveying scary differences and similarities in
Muslim and Christian religious views:
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The
first speaker, Yusuf Qaradawi, a theologian and director of
the Sunna Research Center in Qatar, denounced the attacks, but
added: "We Arabs are among the most sensitive to this because
of the evil inflicted on us by arrogant Zionists. We go to sleep
at night and get up in the morning in a Palestine transformed
into a continuous funeral. We refuse terrorism but don't consider
it terrorism to defend one's own home."
Mr. Qaradawi, who has expressed similar views in the past, said
that in the anti-Muslim reaction to the recent terror attacks
on the United States, "We see a return to the old crusades
that still today are having their effect."
He noted that Timothy McVeigh, found guilty in the Oklahoma
City bombing, "was an American and a Christian but his
guilt was not generalized to all Americans and all Christians."
And he suggested that one major point in common between Muslims
and Christians is their attitude toward homosexuality.
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Herald Tribune [link inactive]
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Explosion
of Jet From Tel Aviv to Russia
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MOSCOW,
Oct. 4 -- A Russian airliner en route to Siberia from Tel Aviv
with 76 people aboard exploded over the Black Sea today just
after Ukrainian troops launched a surface-to-air missile in
a military training exercise, U.S. officials said.
The
missile launch was picked up by satellites equipped with infrared
sensors at the Defense Department's early warning center at
Fort Meade, the officials said. The commercial airliner, which
broke into pieces and fell into the Black Sea, may have been
mistaken for an unmanned target, one official said.
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The
plane, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, departed Tel Aviv's Ben
Gurion airport at 9:58 a.m. local time. Security checks at the
airport are typically very stringent. On board Sibir Airlines'
weekly Flight 1812 to Novosibirsk were 51 Israeli citizens,
most of them recent immigrants taking advantage of the Jewish
holiday Sukkot to visit relatives.
Most
of the other 13 passengers were believed to be Russian. There
were a dozen crew members, also Russian, including an airline
inspector present for a routine check of the pilots' skills.
About half the seats were empty. After about an hour and 45
minutes in the air, the plane was over the Black Sea at an altitude
of 36,300 feet.
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U.S.
Military Plan
Quotes
on possible ( likely ? ) U.S. military plan from retired Army
General Barry McCaffrey:
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are going to disrupt these people through preemptive attack
... we will deceive them, we will run psyops on them, at selected
points and times they will be killed suddenly, in significant
numbers, and without warning."
- "Tomahawk
missiles, 2000 pound laser guided weapons dropped from B2's
or F22's at very high altitude, remote control, booby traps,
blackmail and at places, small groups of soldiers or SEALs
will appear in total darkness, blow down the doors and kill
them at close range with automatic weapons and hand grenades."
- "We
will find their money and freeze it. We will arrest their
front agents. We will operate against their recruiting and
transportation functions. We will locate their training areas
and surveil or mine them. We will isolate them from their
families."
- "We
will try to dominate their communication function and alternately
listen, jam or spoof it. We will make their couriers disappear.
If we can find out how they eat, or play or receive rewards,
or where they sleep -- we will go there and kill them by surprise."
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(paraphrase) "The military component will be a supporting
but lesser aspect of a strategy that will be based fundamentally
on diplomatic and economic leverage to compel cooperation
with international law."
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(paraphrase) "There will need to be substantial and costly
efforts to reduce the environmental factors that feed extremist
madness. That will include dramatically increased aid to address
the poverty of Palestinians, Afghans, Sudanese and others."
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