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U.S. Report Foresees Deadlier Terror Attacks

Posted By Tim McDowell On December 2, 2008 @ 10:10 am In CIP, HLD | No Comments

 (Global Security Newswire, 11/19/08)

Terrorists could acquire more dangerous conventional arms and even biological-weapon agents by 2025, creating the potential for more lethal attacks, U.S. Deputy National Intelligence Director Thomas Fingar said. “I can imagine that the aggregate threat diminishes but the specific instances (of attacks) being much more deadly,” he said, basing his comments on a new National Intelligence Council report, Global Trends 2025.

Fingar said the report suggests that the Middle East’s burgeoning youth population would give al-Qaeda more prospective operatives while the terrorist organization’s attacks on Islamic populations would hurt its ability to find new members, the Associated Press reported. Fingar added that future tensions in the Middle East would likely involve nuclear weapons.


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