Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenants, operating from hideouts suspected to be along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, are directing a Qaeda effort to launch an attack in the United States sometime this year, senior Bush administration officials said on Thursday. “What we know about this most recent information is that it is being directed from the seniormost levels of the Al Qaeda organization,” said a senior official at a briefing for reporters. He added, “We know that this leadership continues to operate along the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Counterterrorism officials have said for weeks that they are increasingly worried by a continuing stream of intelligence suggesting that Al Qaeda wanted to carry out a significant terror attack on United States soil this year. But until the comments of the senior administration officials on Thursday, it was not clear that Mr. bin Laden and top deputies like Ayman Zawahiri were responsible for the concern.Full Story
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