WASHINGTON - Security experts all believe al-Qaeda is determined to launch an attack on the United States and if it can will try to use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, the chairman of the September 11 commission said on Friday.
"Every single one of them expects an attack," Thomas Kean told reporters, referring to experts who had spoken to his bipartisan commission.
The only issue the experts argued about was whether al-Qaeda was still capable of an operation like the September 11, 2001 attacks or worse, or whether efforts to disrupt the group had reduced its ability to cause mayhem.
"But everybody feels that they are trying to mount another attack, and everybody feels that given their ideology, that they're doing their best to make it chemical, biological and nuclear because it kills more people and that's their goal," said Kean, a Republican.
The commission, in a final report issued on Thursday, recommended a major restructuring of how the government fights terrorism, including a new national intelligence director and a national counterterrorism center.
Kean said the U.S. government had to act quickly on the recommendations because "time is not on our side."
Every single one of them expects an attack," Thomas Kean told reporters, referring to experts who had spoken to his bipartisan commission."
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