CORRECTED: Chertoff says Qaeda not posing pre-Sept 11 threat
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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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Following September 11, 2001, few questioned then-Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff 's urgency, but his critics contend that he was not candid with a Senate committee that he offered reassurance to on two fronts.
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In GILGIT, Pakistan headlined "Sectarian unrest spreads in northern Pakistan" please read in the third paragraph ... religious leader Ziauddin Rizvi ... instead of religious leader Ziauddin Moosavi
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Â· Islamist trio had 700kg of explosives say officialsÂ· US bases, pubs and airport said to be on target list
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the Afghan-Pakistan border for the al Qaeda chief blamed in the September 11 attacks on America. country from Islamic militant groups that disapprove of his close ties with Washington.
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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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Editor&#39;s Note: An audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden was posted Arabic Web sites Thursday. The voice on the tapes refers December 6 attack on the US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Investigators have uncovered no signs of U.S.-based terrorists linked to a plot to blow up airliners headed to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday.
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(InfoWorld) - A planned cyberattack against U.S. financial institutions by Islamic jihadists has so far failed to materialize, Internet security observers said Friday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)Â warned of the possible attack Thursday, apparently prompted by discussions earlier in the week in a jihadist discussion forum, said Adam Raisman an analyst with the SITE (Search for International Terrorist Entities) institute, which tracks terrorists. The attack, dubbed "the Electronic Battle of Guantanamo" by jihadists, had been scheduled to start Friday and last until the end of the month, Raisman said. It was planned in retaliation for the U.S.'s holding of suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp, he said. Both Raisman and Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks Inc.'s Security Engineering and Response Team said they saw no evidence of an attack coming Friday. Arbor, which monitors the Internet backbone for distributed denial-of-service attacks, saw no new attempts to create large attacks, Nazario said. The threat, which DHS attributed to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, seems out of step with the group's past efforts to focus on physical damage instead of cyberdamage, Nazario said. "We think there's a low chance that this is ready to go," he added. Earlier Friday, DHS spokeswoman Joanna Gonzalez downplayed the possible attack, saying her organization had "no information to corroborate the threat," and was sending out the alert "out of an abundance of caution." Over the past few months, jihadists had threatened similar attacks against the Vatican and Royal Air Maroc Web sites, Raisman said. By Friday afternoon, Internet research firm Netcraft Inc. had seen no downtime on the U.S. financial Web sites that it monitors, according to Rich Miller, an analyst with the company. Even if an attack were launched, it would require a certain degree of technical sophistication to succeed against major financial institutions, which are generally pretty well defended, he said. "We're talking about sites that have put a lot of security in place," he said. The U.S. Congress has required financial institutions to take strong measures to protect customer privacy since 1999, when the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act passed, added Pam Johnston, a lawyer with the Foley & Lardner LLP law firm and former federal prosecutor focused on bank fraud. "Banks have been at the forefront of sophistication" in protecting online data, she said. While neither the Vatican nor Royal Air Maroc threats resulted in successful attacks, there have been widespread denial of service attacks in the past. In January, about 800 Danish Web sites were hacked in response to the furor over a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. Cybersecurity experts disagreed about whether the latest DHS warning was useful. Banks have taken several measures since the Sept. 11. 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. to secure their data, said Vivek Mehra, chief enterprise architect for global financial services at Keane Inc., an IT consulting firm. "The threat is overstated," Mehra added. "[The warning] is almost meaningless. It doesn't really change anything." But Johnston and Arbor's Nazario said DHS did the right thing by alerting financial institutions of the threat. "It gives companies a chance to ask their IT guys, 'Are we buttoned down?'" Johnston said. Â
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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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As we all know, since September 11, 2001 the U.S. has been much more vigilant in defending itself against terrorist attacks. &nbsp;In addition to bombing the shit out of the Middle East, we have also established the Department of Homeland Security whose responsibility it is to defend us from terrorists. They have so far done a stellar job, as the U.S. has yet to be hit by another terrorist attack. &nbsp;But the ever-vigilant Department of Homeland Security is not resting on its laurels. Recently, they prevented the terrorist supporter Yusef Islam from entering the United States.
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While saying that Mounir el Motassadeq introduced him to Sept. 11 suicide pilot Mohammed Atta, a trial witness on Wednesday rejected claims that the defendant had any knowledge of the terror attacks.
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Foiled terror attacks in Britain and a history of summertime terrorism have U.S. authorities practicing extra vigilance, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Al Qaeda terror network, responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has reestablished a safe haven in Pakistan, retained its top leadership, and trained new operatives in Iraq -- and now poses a "heightened threat" of another massive attack on the United States, according to the summary of a joint American intelligence assessment.
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Corrects to remove reference to Germany as a permanent Security Council member in 2nd paragraph.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they used a mistaken translation of a key piece of evidence last week in a terror case against two Muslims from Albany, New York.
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The CIA had some low-level spies  inside al Qaeda in the three years before the Sept. 11 attacks,  but none who could provide advance information about the  group's movements, according to testimony released on Wednesday  from a closed-door intelligence briefing in 2002.