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To: Elsewhere who wrote (4516)	10/12/2001 9:38:40 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanx for those refs. I still feel its basically being downplayed--heard nothing on t.v. or radio and its being buried in the news,

To: Elsewhere who wrote (4516)	10/12/2001 9:51:55 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Fox is covering it, too:>>FBI: More Terrorist Attacks Expected Within Days WASHINGTON — Every American at home and abroad needs to be on the highest level of alert for a possible terrorist attack over the next several days, the FBI said Thursday. "Certain information, while not specific as to target, gives the government the reason to believe that there may be additional terrorist attacks within the United States and against U.S. interests overseas over the next several days," the agency said in its warning. "The FBI has again alerted all local law enforcement to be on the highest alert and we call on all people to immediately notify the FBI and local law enforcement of any unusual or suspicious activity" the warning concluded. President Bush said in an evening news conference that the warning was precipitated by a "general threat" the government received. "I hope it's the last, but given the attitude of the evildoers it may not be," he said. A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities had received an increasing amount of intelligence in the past two days about terrorists plotting to wreak more havoc through this weekend. The possible threats ranged from diplomatic sites overseas to possible truck bombs in the United States, the official said. Police on Thursday sharply restricted truck traffic in a 40-block zone around the U.S. Capitol. In Houston, authorities investigated the apparent theft of 700 pounds of explosives from a storage site. Federal agents said it was too early to tell if the theft from AirJac Drilling Inc. was terrorist-related. The FBI's warning was the second this week. On Sunday it asked law enforcement to move to its highest state of alert. Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller have said they intend to alert Americans to any credible threats. In recent days, the FBI has asked supervisors of water systems, nuclear and electric power plant operators, owners of crop dusters and drivers of hazardous waste trucks among others to increase security to ward off attacks. Department of Justice spokeswoman Mindy Tucker told Fox News that the FBI alert is similar to about five or six warnings that have gone out to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, warning of non-specific threats the FBI believes may be credible. The warning came as Bush disclosed that Syria, formerly accused of harboring terrorists, might help with the anti-terrorism fight. "We'll give them an opportunity to do so," the president said. The government also acknowledged it didn't know how six of the 19 suspected terrorists in the Sept. 11 hijackings made it onto U.S. soil. "Six of the individuals, we can find no record of them, period. That's not just INS, that's everywhere," said James Ziglar, head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Ziglar said 13 hijackers had entered the United States legally, but three — Nawaf Alhazmi, Waleed M. Alshehri and Ahmed Alghamdi — had overstayed their visas: . A fourth, Hani Hanjour, had been in the United States legally at various times for the past decade, but immigration officials said they were unable to determine whether he was here lawfully on the day of the attacks. Ziglar underscored the government's doubts over the identities of some of the hijackers. "I suspect one of the reasons the FBI issued the pictures and the names a week or so ago was to find out if anybody out there knew whether this person was the person who has the name," the commissioner told a House panel. "It's a problem not knowing who these people were and being able to match these names with faces," Ziglar added. << foxnews.com