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Judge foresees terror attack

A little bit of local news, but as those speaking had significant experience, I thought it may be intereting.
Another terrorist attack on America is imminent this year, a local judge and intelligence expert said Friday. Erie County Judge Michael Dunlavey, a recently retired U.S. Army major general who oversaw the questioning of detainees at the U.S. naval station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002, told hundreds of police, firefighters, special agents and local and national criminal-justice leaders that an event similar in magnitude to 9/11 is looming. "It will happen again this year," Dunlavey told the crowd at Mercyhurst Collegeâs 21st annual criminal-justice conference. "We will have mass casualties."

Dunlavey said that while likely terrorist targets include the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and the Democratic National Convention in Boston, all Americans must be alert to suspicious activity. "You have a very, very difficult position because we are an open society," he said. "I can tell you with absolute certainty that every day, terrorists enter the United States. They are real and they are here."