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\"alert-us\"WASHINGTON: US government agencies are on alert for militants trying to attack the United States over the Christmas holidays but are not aware of a specific plot, intelligence and law enforcement officials said.<\/div>\n

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The Obama administration is edgy about holiday threats after a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, allegedly tried to bring down a Detroit-bound passenger plane on Christmas Day last year with a bomb hidden in his underpants.
The Internet is teeming with threats against Americans and Europeans around this year\u2019s busy shopping and travel period, said the officials and a private expert who monitors postings on websites run by al Qaeda and other militant groups.
But officials said US agencies had not pinpointed a plot or suspects planning an attack.
President Barack Obama and many senior officials plan to travel outside Washington over the holidays and threat information flowing into US agencies has not caused them to alter their plans.
\u201cI think it would be the absolutely wrong thing to cancel plans,\u201d one intelligence official said. \u201cRemember, there is always \u2018chatter\u2019 in the system. Let\u2019s not give them an easy win by over-reacting.\u201d
Fears of a possible repeat of last year have been heightened by:
\u2014 bombs put aboard US-bound cargo planes this fall;
\u2014 a warning by authorities in Iraq that militants might be headed for Europe or the United States;
\u2014 a failed bombing by an Iraqi-born suspect in a Swedish shopping district this month;
\u2014 a round-up of suspects in Britain earlier this week;
\u2014 the arrest in November of a suspect who allegedly plotted to bomb a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Tearful Days\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House convened a meeting of senior officials from various agencies and departments on Tuesday to \u201creview the latest threat reporting\u201d and coordinate security plans for the holiday period, John Brennan, Obama\u2019s chief counter-terrorism advisor, told reporters on Wednesday.
Brennan insisted US precautions have been improved since the underpants bombing attempt and incidents that included the shooting of soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, allegedly by an Army psychiatrist, and the attempted car bombing of New York City\u2019s Times Square by a Pakistan-born militant.
Since last Christmas, a counter-terrorism official said, rules for using intelligence information to screen airline passengers have been tightened.
This means a suspect like Abdulmutallab \u2014 whose name was in a classified intelligence database but not on a \u201cno fly\u201d list \u2014 would be questioned before he boarded his US-bound flight, the official said.
Evan Kohlmann, a private expert who monitors militant traffic on the Internet, said websites affiliated with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based group suspected of equipping Abdulmutallab with his underpants bomb, have been quiet in this year\u2019s pre-Christmas period.
But other websites, including some maintained by militants believed to be living in the United States, have been blaring threats.
\u201cBlack Tearful Days \u2014 Coming Soon for The Europeans and The Americans. Omar Faruk (Abdulmutallab) was The Beginning,\u201d said a headline on a site that Kohlmann said is operated by the Somalia-based group Shabaab al-Mujahideen.
Last week, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to law enforcement agencies advising extra vigilance during the holiday period.
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen in the past terrorists using the holidays as a jumping-off point,\u201d said a senior official familiar with the bulletin.
US and European counter-terrorism officials said they are most worried about isolated, \u201clone wolf\u201d militants who would not have come to the attention of a law enforcement or intelligence agency.
Officials said they hope \u2014 and believe \u2014 they have a fairly good handle on the activities of better organized groups and cells.<\/p>\n

Source: DAWN<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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