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CIA WARNS OF MAJOR TERROR ATTACK
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The CIA has concluded that the United States will be rocked by a major attack from Islamic insurgents.
Officials said U.S. intelligence has assessed that the attack would probably come from Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden or his allies. They said the Bin Laden operation would seek to match the suicide attacks on New York and
Washington on Sept. 11.
Such an attack, officials said, is likely to once again target New York or Washington. Over the last two weeks, the FBI, which works with the CIA in the Counter-Terrorist Center, has issued two warnings of terrorist attacks.
The agency said it obtained information that insurgents have targeted banks and shopping malls in northeastern United States.
"Now for the hard truth," CIA Deputy Director for Operation James Pavitt said. "Despite the best efforts of so much of the world, the next terrorist attack -- it's not a question of if, it's a question of when. The threat that we face today from global terrorism is real, it's immediate, and it is
unlike any other we have faced before. I say this from 30 years of experience in an intelligence function."
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HAMAS, HIZBULLAH FIND HAVEN IN S. AMERICA
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States asserts that two major Islamic insurgency groups now operate in South America.
U.S. officials said the Palestinian Hamas and the Iranian-backed Hizbullah movements have established operations in the so-called tri-border area. They said Hamas and Hizbullah use the frontier areas shared by Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil as a haven for insurgency, counterfeiting and drug trafficking.
"The tri-border area of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil continues to be a haven for Islamic extremists," Asa Hutchinson, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said. "The two major terrorist organizations in the tri-border area are Hizbullah and the Islamic Resistance movement known as Hamas. It is suspected that their illegal activities range from producing counterfeit U.S. currency to smuggling illegal substances through the tri-border area."
The DEA administrator told the House International Relations Committee that Hamas and Hizbullah operate undisturbed in the tri-border area. The official said the situation in that region "highlights the ease with which terrorist organizations can infiltrate and assimilate in other countries and go relatively undetected for an extended period of time."
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