Posted on 08/07/2003 8:29:19 PM PDT by Area Freeper
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Department of Homeland Security is evaluating about a dozen overseas airports to determine their vulnerability to attacks with shoulder-fired missiles.
"There is no intelligence that there are al Qaeda cells actively planning or in the execution phase to carry out some sort of attack" in the United States or overseas, a department official said Thursday, adding that the Kenyan incident was "a wake-up call."
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