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'Al Qaeda poised for large-scale terror attack on America by July' | Dennis C Blair, President Obama's director of national intelligence, has warned that Al Qaeda and its affiliates may attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months. Blair's assessment came at Tuesday's hearing when
Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked
him to weigh up the possibility of an attempted attack in the United States. His
response that "the priority is certain, I would say" was reaffirmed by top C.I.A.
and F.B.I. officials. Citing a recent wave of terrorist plots, Blair and other
intelligence officials told a Senate panel that Al Qaeda had adjusted its tactics
to more effectively strike American targets domestically and abroad. "The biggest
threat is not so much that we face an attack like 9/11. It is that Al Qaeda is
adapting its methods in ways that oftentimes make it difficult to detect," the
New York Times quoted C.I.A. director Leon E. Panetta, as saying. Blair also warned
of the threat of a crippling attack on the country's information infrastructure
such as telecommunications and other computer networks. "Malicious cyberactivity
is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication," he
told Senators. "Sensitive information is stolen daily from both government and
private-sector networks, undermining confidence in our information systems, and
in the very information these systems were intended to convey," Blair added. |
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