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...that the Spanish bombings made a defensive roundup seem prudent. "If the GICM decided to attack a target in France, it would be doing so using the kind of people we arrested this week," says the French counterterror official. "Some of these people have what we'd consider potentially high-level operative status. We can't say they'd been switched on, but we do think they're on standby." Are there other terror cells around Europe? Yes. British officials last week charged six of nine men arrested between March 30 and April 1 with terror offenses; those six remain...
...grants will pay for a broad range of improvements to course websites, including the creation of digital content, high resolution imaging, high-level video production and the licensing of protected materials...
Allison pointed out that Frazer currently occupies a high-level position within the White House and all affairs having to do with African foreign policy go through...
...bush administration's first high-level meeting on terrorism in April 2001, Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism czar, was briefing on al-Qaeda. "Wait a minute," Clarke recalls Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz saying. "Why are we talking about al-Qaeda? We have to talk about Iraqi-sponsored terrorism." Clarke says that Wolfowitz insisted that al-Qaeda was incapable of mounting a major attack without the help of Saddam Hussein. (A spokesman for Wolfowitz told TIME, "The allegation that [Wolfowitz] dismissed the threat from al-Qaeda is false," and a senior Administration official present at the meeting insisted that "Wolfowitz...
...they? The accounts of high-level conversations and meetings given by Clarke in various television appearances, beginning with the 60 Minutes interview, differ in significant respects from the recollections of a former top counterterrorism official who participated in the same conversations and meetings: Richard Clarke. In several cases, the version of events provided by Clarke this week include details and embellishments that do not appear in his new book, Against All Enemies. While the discrepancies do not, on their own, discredit Clarke's larger arguments, they do raise questions about whether Clarke's eagerness to publicize his story...