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...FBI is warning law enforcement agencies to be on the alert for the possibility that suicide bombers may attempt to strike inside the United States. A lightly classified intelligence bulletin circulated Thursday to 18,000 U.S. law enforcement bodies is headlined "Possible suicide bomber indicators," and was distributed via the Bureau?s secure Law Enforcement Online (LEO) Intranet. It warns local badge-carriers to look for obvious signs of trouble - people wearing heavy, bulky jackets on warm days, smelling of chemicals, trailing wires from their jackets - as well, more subtle ones, such as tightly clenched fists. Someone who never shows...
...FBI bulletin also notes that suicide bombers may disguise themselves in stolen military, police or firefighter's garb, or even as pregnant women...
From Spanish Basques to Moroccan Muslims to--an Aloha, Ore., lawyer? The global probe into the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid homed in on suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid...
...FBI agent Coleen Rowley showed clarity of vision and courage in risking her career to disclose intelligence failures within the FBI in 2002. In her Viewpoint, "What the FBI Needs--and Doesn't Need" [April 26], she wrote that taking domestic intelligence gathering away from the FBI and giving it to a new agency modeled after Britain's MI5 would undermine post-9/11 intelligence-agency reforms and would not be a positive move. A new government entity cannot help prevent another 9/11. The best possible strategy for handling terrorist threats is to steel our resolve, use our common sense...
...those who claim that nothing could have prevented the 9/11 attacks, the failures of American intelligence agencies say otherwise [April 26]. The provocative leads on activities of known al-Qaeda members that were not adequately pursued make it clear that both the FBI and CIA could and should have done much better. Complaining that hindsight is 20/20 does not absolve these agencies. The tips and memos they received were not meaningless gossip but important information. We need to put more serious effort and resources into the U.S.'s intelligence infrastructure to prevent future attacks. It's better to do that...