U.S. plays down report of imminent al Qaeda attack
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday played down a report al Qaeda was planning a big attack on the United States, saying there was no credible information about an imminent threat.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was still very much alive, denying reports by some Iraqi politicians that he had been tracked down and killed.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The government dismissed a top American counterterrorism official&#39;s claim of progress in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, saying today that Pakistan does not have any information on the Al Qaeda leader&#39;s whereabouts.
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Five years after the September 11   attacks, the Bush administration still does not fully   understand the threat from al Qaeda, a congressional report   released on Wednesday said.
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Al-Qaeda has regrouped and is at its strongest since before the 9/11 attacks, according to leaks of a US intelligence report.
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Pakistan Tuesday dismissed a claim by a U.S. counter-terrorism official that the United States and its allies were closing in on the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.
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Some top intelligence officials say the U.S. missed a significant opportunity to try to capture senior members of Al Qaeda.
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A declassified report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence revealed that U.S. intelligence analysts were strongly disputing the alleged links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while senior Bush administration officials were publicly asserting those links to justify...
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The threat of a terrorist attack on the United States still exists, but counterterrorism officials say there is a conspicuous lack of intelligence "chatter" being picked up.
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Pakistan rejected a US official&#39;s weekend claim that Osama bin Laden was close to being captured as &quot;politicking&quot;. &quot;He can say this, but we have no sound information.
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President George W. Bush said on Saturday he was troubled by a U.S. intelligence report's finding that al Qaeda had become entrenched in a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal region near Afghanistan.
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The U.S. military on Thursday denied reports it had killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  said on Monday he knew of no "strong, hard evidence" linking  Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda, despite describing  extensive contacts between the two before the Iraq invasion.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan yesterday rejected a claim by the US intelligence chief that Osama bin Laden and his deputy were hiding in northwestern Pakistan, and that Al Qaeda was setting up camps near the Afghan border.
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WASHINGTON -- A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in tribal areas of Pakistan was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials decided it was too risky and could jeopardize relations with Pakistan, according to intelligence and military officials.
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Corrects paragraph two to show Chertoff playing down reports al Qaeda as threatening as pre-Sept. 11.
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The U.S. Embassy said Thursday that American and other Western installations are at risk of terrorist attack in Nigeria, but officials later played down the warning, saying no specific threat had prompted the announcement.