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“High confidence, high impact”

Yahoo news has this report:

CIA director Michael Hayden warned today that Al-Qaeda was plotting fresh attacks on the United States aimed at producing massive casualties. “Our analysts assess with high confidence that Al-Qaeda’s central leadership is planning high impact plots against the American homeland…Al-Qaeda is focusing on targets that would produce mass casualties, dramatic destruction and significant economic aftershocks.”

Thanks for the info.

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One Response to ““High confidence, high impact””

  1. gs Says:
    September 8th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    The Homeland Security Threat Level has not changed as of this writing. Why not? In fact, why is this warning not coming from DHS?

    Maybe the news report took Hayden’s comment out of context. The entire speech is here. An extract:

    I want to be absolutely clear that this conflict is not about religion. The war of ideas is not about Islam. It’s about fanatics whose victims most often have been Muslims. The terrorists must be exposed for the scourge they are and reviled for the horror and suffering they inflict. Only then can they be uprooted at their source.

    The deep fight, which our society as a whole must wage, requires that jihadist ideas of violence, extremism, and intolerance be countered by ideas of peace, moderation, and inclusion. It requires a tireless global campaign by a broad coalition of nations and societies. But it’s our friends in the Islamic world, repulsed by al-Qa’ida’s savage distortion of their faith, who must take a leading role.

    I’d like to believe that, but I’m less than confident that it isn’t wishful thinking. On what basis was this formulation adopted? What’s the evidence, how are we monitoring the situation, and what would change our minds? What will we do if this way of defining the conflict is invalid?

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