11th
July 2007
Senior
law enforcement officials said today that the growing
signs of a "Summer of '07" terror attack on the U.S.
have led the FBI to dispatch dozens of agents to track
down new leads across the country.
The
threat has also led the White House to begin a weekly
meeting of senior law enforcement and intelligence
officials.
The
group met last Friday and will meet tomorrow in the
White House Situation Room at 1 p.m., according to the
officials.
The
White House has described the meeting as "not urgent"
and "regular," but law enforcement officials tell the
Blotter on ABCNews.com the new
weekly sessions, to be held every Thursday, were
designed specifically to counter the summer threat.
"The
Thursday meetings will be regular, but the first one is
tomorrow," said one official.
Dozens
of FBI agents have been given a two-week deadline to run
down more than 700 leads on an FBI "worry list,"
developed in the wake of the failed attacks in London
and Glasgow. The list includes some 100 specific leads
in the New York area, senior law enforcement officials
also told ABCNews.com.
Although
the White House says there is no credible, imminent
threat to the United States, the origin of the
intelligence that a small group of al Qaeda terrorists
was headed to the United States came from a credible
intelligence source, who in the past has been reliable,
officials said.
The
source of the intelligence specified the small cell was
travelling from Pakistan.
The new
threat comes as FBI agents were already trying to sort
through a mountain of e-mails, jihadist message board
postings, telephone intercepts and human source
intelligence, in an effort to pluck an intelligence gem
from the background of "chatter" louder than has been
heard in any recent summer season.
There is
so much terrorist "noise" that some agents and officers
have already dubbed June and July a "summer of chatter."
Agents
also have been running down financial leads and
telephone records that could have linked several members
of the recent failed London and Glasgow, Scotland
incendiary bomb plots to North America.
The
number one terrorist on their list should be Adnan El
Shukrijumah
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