Reply #18: Bush's terror info 'confusing'

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Bush's terror info 'confusing'
23/10/2005 13:01 - (SA)



Washington - US counterterrorism experts are confused by a list of 10 terrorist plots disrupted by the United States which was mentioned by President George W Bush in a recent speech, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The newspaper reported the experts and officials say they cannot distinguish between the importance of some incidents on the list and others that were left off.

Intelligence officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the White House overstated the gravity of the plots by saying that they had been foiled, when most were far from ready to be executed, the report said.

Others noted that the nation's colour-coded threat index was not raised from yellow, or "elevated" risk of attack, to orange, or "high" risk, for most of the time covered by the incidents on the list, according to the paper.

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