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To: carranza2 who wrote (57313)	11/15/2002 11:32:50 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

However, the fact that no operations with calamitous results have been launched gives me a lot of hope that perhaps the threat is not as huge as once thought and/or our counter-terror measures have been effective. I, too, have felt that Al Qaeda forces had been decimated and did not buy into the press for war against Iraq, which is no imminent threat to us, IMO. The bottom line is that AQ, for all its threats, has not been able to successfully mount the kind of large scale terrorism that would cause significant damage to the US economy, which I presume is its ultimate goal. To some degree, they achieved that with 9/11. The loss of so many innocent lives and continued turmoil in the market has been a result of that. Have you seen that the FBI is confirming that there is a threat of the magnitude stated in the "hoax"? What do you make of this? story.news.yahoo.com FBI Warns of 'Spectacular Attack' 10 minutes ago By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI (news - web sites) is warning that al-Qaida may be planning a "spectacular" terrorist attack intended to damage the U.S. economy and inflict large-scale casualties. The White House said Friday it was leaving its alert status at current levels. White House spokesman Scott McClellan cited the lack of any intelligence about specific time, date, location or method of possible attack as the reason for keeping the nation's official terrorist threat level at code yellow, the middle of a five-level scale of risk developed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks