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...intercepts that are far from definitive. Was that intercepted phrase, "the swallows should leave the nest," an order to attack or just two guys talking about ornithology? The FBI's threat warning on Oct. 11, for example, was based in part on an Al Qaeda informant pointing out that bin Laden's videotape message broadcast after the bombing started contained a phrase he wouldn't normally send. Perhaps that phrase was a signal for a second wave of attacks...
Past Issues Taliban Last Days Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Lifting the Veil Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunt for bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- Thanksgiving 2001 Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Inside Al-Qaeda Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- Defender In Chief Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from...
...terror warnings are issued because the intelligence "noise" has gotten louder. More reports - confirmed or unconfirmed - are pouring into intelligence organizations about terrorists on the move, so the agencies conclude that something must be up, though they don't know what. Intelligence officials also admit that sophisticated organizations like bin Laden's often will have operatives intentionally create noise - like making cellphone calls they know spy satellites will intercept - just to flush out what the spy agencies have arrayed against them...
...insists the warning this time is based on credible evidence. And a U.S. intelligence official tells me the bureau "issued it for a good reason." He added that intelligence collected overseas suggests another attack by bin Laden's operatives. But other U.S. counter-terrorism officials "are scratching their heads," says one. "It's a little mysterious. Nothing is jumping out in the intelligence reports as being more of a threat than we've already...
...That was the message from the White House, Thursday, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice vowed that the U.S. would continue to step up its military campaign to tilt the scales against the Taliban before Afghanistan's winter renders significant ground advances unlikely. And a letter purportedly from Osama bin Laden widely broadcast Thursday, which calls on Pakistanis to fight against the U.S. campaign suggests that General Musharraf may be in for a testing month as fasting Muslims are drawn together on a daily basis at their mosques...