Second Wave ? - From World Net Daily -
30-50 more suicide
killers in U.S.
Intelligence sources say they wait for
orders to strike
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The FBI's coast-to-coast dragnet on the trail of
the terrorists behind the deadly airliner suicide
attacks in America will need to do much more
than put together a case for crimes committed,
says DEBKA-Net-Weekly. The agency will have
to move fast into the area of terror prevention so
that America is not caught off-guard again.
Prevention was where U.S. security fell down
most tragically, allowing terrorist suicides to
use airliners as weapons of mass destruction
against New York's landmark World Trade
Center and America's military nerve center, the
Pentagon in Washington. Advance intelligence
on the appalling crimes was nil. And when that
first-line defense failed, the second-line barrier,
security, was likewise non-existent.
But it is not over. The threat against America's
president, its ruling institutions, its financial
and military might is still palpable. Indeed,
according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's
counter-terror experts, reporting from U.S.
security and Israeli intelligence sources, the
Islamic militants obeying Saudi
multimillionaire terrorist Osama Bin Laden, the
radical Egyptian Jihadi Islami, Iraqi military
intelligence and other Middle East groups,
stand poised for a second wave of horrendous
attacks.
An estimated 30 to 50 suicide-killers are waiting
inside America for their orders to strike. This
time, while aiming as before for the president,
the White House and Capitol Hill, they will also
go for a broad spectrum of what they consider
strategic targets, such as airports, oil fields and
oil installations, sensitive military and
intelligence facilities, warships and carriers. The
last were indeed ordered out to sea shortly after
the assaults on Tuesday.
Aware that flushing out the terrorists in waiting,
many of whom may be U.S. nationals, is akin to
finding a needle in a haystack, U.S. leaders
quickly resorted to a short cut. They turned to
allies, in and outside NATO, in the arena in
which America fell down most signally:
advance intelligence.
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's intelligence
sources, a comprehensive round of discreet
telephone calls went out Wednesday from
President George W. Bush, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin
Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice and CIA Director George Tenet. The calls
went to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder,
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Russian
President Vladimir Putin, French President
Jacques Chirac, Chinese leader Jiang Zemin,
Indian Prime Minister Bihari Vajpayee and
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
They were all asked to have their counter-terror
and security agencies pool intelligence with
their counterparts in Washington, sharing every
scrap of information on international terror
movements in support of the American effort to
eradicate the blight.
Aside from France, which posed conditions –
and China, which has yet to reply – all the other
leaders promised every assistance and full
cooperation.
Within hours, rough cross-checking of U.S.
intelligence data with the flow from foreign
colleagues was enough to strongly confirm the
second wave thesis. It also indicated that the
masters of international terror intend landing
their second blow while the American
government and people are still recovering
from the first. They will not wait for the United
States to get itself and its anti-terror coalition
organized for a tough retaliatory war.
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