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WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge on Tuesday defended the decision to tighten security in New York and Washington even though the intelligence behind the latest terror warnings was as much as 4 years old.
Law enforcement officials were trying to determine whether the plot was current, with terrorists still trying to organize such an attack -- in an investigation made more urgent by revelations linking the suspect behind the intelligence with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in east Africa.See the full content of this document
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Ridge Defends Security Actions
In those devastating truck bombings, al-Qaida operatives had begun casing targets in Kenya almost five years in advance.
The warnings that terrorists might be plotting attacks on specific buildings in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J., have prompted authorities to eleva...See the full content of this document
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