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From: Dan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 4:59 AM
Subject: [exploration] Will bin Laden Retaliate?
From: Dan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 4:59 AM
Subject: [exploration] Will bin Laden Retaliate?
>From NEWSWEEK issue Dec. 28, 1998/Jan. 4, 1999 - TUESDAY, December 22, 1998 Will bin Laden Retaliate? Federal authorities have ratcheted up security nationwide as a precaution against possible terrorist retaliation for the U.S. military assault on Baghdad. Meanwhile, U.S. forces are bracing for a possible attack in the Mideast or Africa by Osama bin Laden. Based on intelligence intercepts, U.S. government officials believe that bin Laden, the alleged architect of last summer's twin embassy bombings in Africa, may have ordered a new fatwa, or religious decree, calling for the murder of U.S. citizens. In response to the latest threat, the State Department closed most of its embassies in Africa, and U.S. forces in the region were placed on ThreatConCharlie, a high-security condition. "We are particularly worried about people overseas, where [bin Laden] has the resources and we don't have good control of local and federal police," says a top FBI official. Shortly after President Clinton gave the orders for the strikes on Iraq, U.S. government facilities and buildings were placed on high alert worldwide. Law-enforcement and intelligence officials are focusing much of their attention on New York City, which the Feds consider a "hotbed" of possible terrorist activity and a "natural target" because of the local field office's aggressiveness in bringing terrorism cases to trial. Late last week the FBI placed its New York field office on a "24-hour lookout," ordering surveillance of all Iraqi installations in New York and of all "known or suspected" Iraqi intelligence officers. Of particular interest, according to an FBI teletype transmitted to all its field offices, is the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations. The FBI has also told its counterintelligence agents to reach out to all of its informants who may have intelligence about possible terrorist acts. As an added precaution, the bureau's New York command center will be manned round the clock by the city's joint terrorist task force, made up of the FBI, the New York City police and other federal agents. Still, says the bureau official: "I don't think we're going to see anything too terribly quickly. It takes a lot for them to plan one of these things." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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