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...nuclear weapon, or even more easily, build a radioactive "dirty bomb"? Or might they seek to use poison gases or anthrax to kill thousands of Americans? But the plot revealed by British security services on Thursday suggests that al-Qaeda - prime suspects, according to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - still sees plenty of mileage to be gained from using conventional explosives, which are far more accessible, and can be just as effective in spreading carnage and terror...
Wednesday night was a long and troubling one for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. A bubbling plot by British citizens to blow up airplanes had come to a boil in the past three days, and as British authorities arrested dozens of suspects around London, it was Chertoff's job to coordinate the U.S. defenses. Scary intelligence reports pop up all the time, but this particular terror operation got close enough to being carried out that it rattled even the normally sedate Chertoff. "Very seldom do things get to me," he told Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House...
...Chertoff had good reason to be worried. Senior U.S officials have confirmed to TIME details of the plot that led the Secretary to ratchet up the color-coded security alert for British-U.S. flights to an unprecedented red for "Severe." A total of 24 individuals were arrested in Britain overnight and, says one senior U.S. official who was briefed on the plot, five still remain at large. Their plan was to smuggle the peroxide-based liquid explosive TATP and detonators onto nine different planes from four carriers - British Airways, Continental, United and American - that fly direct routes between...
...issued a 520-page study of the government?s response to Hurricane Katrina titled "A Failure of Initiative." Today, the White House issued its own, 228-page report, entitled, a tad more diplomatically, "Lessons Learned." While the White House report avoids castigating individual actors (read: Michael Brown or Michael Chertoff), this debrief is just as sweeping...
...plan to hold hearings on the issue next week, and are seeking legislation banning companies controlled by foreign governments from buying U.S. port facilities. Menendez alleged that the UAE has a "serious and dubious history... as a transit point for terrorism." And in response to Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff's insistence that the administration made a rigorous check - without disclosing details - of the security implications of the deal, California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer said "It's ridiculous to say you're taking secret steps to make sure that it's okay for a nation that has ties to 9/11...