Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3723-1004595272-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3956 invoked by uid 510); 1 Nov 2001 06:13:45 -0000 Received: from n30.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.80) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 1 Nov 2001 06:13:45 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3723-1004595272-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.4.54] by n30.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Nov 2001 06:14:32 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 1 Nov 2001 06:14:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 5257 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2001 06:14:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Nov 2001 06:14:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Nov 2001 06:14:31 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fA16EhA09603 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:14:43 -0800 Message-Id: <200111010614.fA16EhA09603@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:14:43 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Sources:.bin.Laden.May.Have.Ordered.New.Attacks] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sources: bin Laden May Have Ordered New Attacks By JOHN LUMPKIN and JOHN SOLOMON .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Oct. 31) - U.S. intelligence is concerned that Osama bin Laden's inner circle has issued new orders for attacks against Americans and that the terrorists might strike even if their contact is cut off from Afghanistan, officials say. The terrorist alert the FBI issued for this week was based on intelligence that emerged over the weekend involving Afghanistan and known al-Qaida supporters elsewhere in the world, including Canada, the officials said Tuesday. The officials, who described the information to The Associated Press only 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 long have suspected that bin Laden's top deputies, Ayman al-Zawahri and Mohammed Atef, were involved in the planning or support of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings that killed 5,000 people. They cautioned, however, that U.S. intelligence officials also consider it possible that the terrorists are aware their communications are being monitored and may be spreading false information deliberately. ''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. 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. Canadian Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay, who oversees his nation's law enforcement and intelligence, said Tuesday that information his country provided to the United States was behind the warning. Information provided to the FBI from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ''led Mr. Ashcroft to make the statement that he made yesterday,'' MacAulay said. The information about the intelligence came as the FBI searched for clues on how a New York woman with no ties to the media or postal service became infected with the most lethal form of anthrax. Agents were testing her workplace and home and retracing her steps to see how she might have inhaled the deadly anthrax spores and whether the bacteria was similar to the strains found in letters to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and the New York Post. An FBI official also acknowledged Tuesday that the agency had not yet tested quarantined mail on Capitol Hill for possible cross-contamination with anthrax from the Daschle letter. The testimony from Agent James Jarboe prompted a stern bipartisan letter from two congressmen to FBI Director Robert Mueller. ''This delay is very disturbing, as over two weeks have passed since the Daschle letter was opened,'' wrote Reps. Dan Burton, R-Ind., and Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge also fended off criticism Tuesday from other members of Congress that the administration was unnecessarily alarming the public by issuing terrorism alerts with only general information about the nature of the threats. ''You wonder what these warnings achieve, other than to create more fear,'' Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said. Ridge said the alert was based on information from ''multiple sources and they were credible sources'' and they suggested an attack was imminent ''in the next week or so'' U.S. officials said they were concerned that bin Laden's al-Qaida network may become more decentralized in the midst of the U.S.-led bombing in Afghanistan. The officials said there were some suspicions that terrorist cells already trained or financed by al-Qaida 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 that it is a matter of concern. 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 whether some of it was designed to disguise the plans to strike on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, officials said. ------------------------ Yahoo! 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