The United States State Department’s counter-terrorism chief says there is a “certainty” that terrorists will try to launch multiple strikes against the US and its allies in response to a war with Iraq. J.Cofer Black said that even though leaders of the al-Qaeda terrorist network “spend more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations … there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies”. His statement came at a Senate committee hearing a day after the United States was put on an orange terror alert, the second highest of five levels. Security was tightened around the nation and hundreds of extra agents were deployed at the Mexican and Canadian borders. Full Story
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