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U.S. Suspects New Terror Orders
By JOHN LUMPKIN and JOHN SOLOMON
.c The Associated Press

  
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. authorities suspect Osama bin Laden's inner circle may 
have issued new orders for attacks against Americans and are concerned the 
terrorists might strike even if they get cut off from their central command 
in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. 

The terrorist alert issued Monday was based on intelligence involving 
Afghanistan and known al-Qaida supporters elsewhere in the world, including 
Canada, the officials told The Associated Press. 

The officials, who described the information solely on condition of 
anonymity, said some of the intelligence suggested one of bin Laden's 
lieutenants in Afghanistan recently urged new attacks on Americans. They 
declined to be more specific. 

U.S. officials have long suspected that bin Laden's top deputies, Ayman 
al-Zawahri and Mohammed Atef, were involved in the planning or support of the 
Sept. 11 hijackings. 

They cautioned, however, that U.S. intelligence also is open to the 
possibility that the terrorists are aware their communications are being 
monitored and may be planting false information. 

The officials said other information that led to the warning from Attorney 
General John Ashcroft on Monday suggested known al-Qaida operatives in 
Canada, Asia and elsewhere were discussing new attacks. 

Canada's Solicitor General Lawrence MacAuley, who oversees the nation's law 
enforcement and intelligence, confirmed Tuesday that information his country 
provided to the United States was behind the warning. 

Information provided to the FBI from the Canadian Intelligence Security 
Service ``led Mr. Ashcroft to make the statement that he made yesterday,'' 
MacAuley said. 

U.S. officials said they are concerned the al-Qaida network may become more 
decentralized in the midst of the U.S.-led bombing in Afghanistan. They said 
there are some suspicions terrorist cells already trained or financed by bin 
Laden's network might be willing to act without a central order from 
Afghanistan. 

Key members of Congress said such a decentralization was feared because it 
would make it more difficult to detect where the next attacks were coming 
from. 

``If there are people who would do us harm, we have to assume those people 
are probably trained to do things without a specific order,'' said Sen. 
Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. 

A senior U.S. official said American intelligence doesn't have sufficient 
evidence to determine whether this decentralization is already taking place 
but it is of concern. 

U.S. intelligence also is considering the possibility that the terrorists, 
aware of the extensive effort to intercept their communications, may be 
planting false communications to disguise their real plans, officials said. 

``My guess is the terrorist network is not going to avoid using the tool of 
disinformation,'' said Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman of the House 
Intelligence Committee. 

Added Shelby: ``You have to believe that any messages could be 
disinformation.'' 

Government officials said they are open to the possibility that even the 
intelligence received in the last week may be designed to deceive the United 
States and its allies. 

In addition, the officials said, U.S. intelligence is reassessing information 
received this spring and summer that led to a CIA warning in June that bin 
Laden might strike overseas. 

No attacks occurred and the information from that period is being 
re-evaluated to determine if some of it was designed to disguise the plans to 
strike on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, officials said. 

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