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US official sez WMDs are still a threat
The top coordinator of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts warned Tuesday of more attacks despite progress in the war on terrorism and said he was concerned that terrorists were trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction."The threat is real," said Henry Crumpton, the U.S. State Department's counterterrorism coordinator. He was visiting Indonesia, nearly three weeks after suicide bombers killed 20 people and wounded more than 100 on the resort island of Bali. Crumpton said progress has been made in the global war on terror, with several high profile arrests made and potential strikes thwarted. But, he said, "realistically, there will be more attacks." "But what really concerns me is weapons of mass destruction," Crumpton said, pointing to alleged statements made by Osama bin Laden's terror network about its interest in biological and chemical warfare. He also cited evidence U.S. officials said they found in Afghanistan that al-Qaida was working on anthrax weapons. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-10-19 |
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