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January 13, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-padilla11jan11011438.story

U.S. Has Thwarted More than 100 Terror Attacks

(Los Angeles Times) Federal authorities said Friday that more than 100 terrorist attacks planned against the United States and its allies have been thwarted since Sept. 11, 2001, due in large part to the continuing interrogation of enemy combatants and other captives ensnared in the war on terror. The planned attacks included threats against U.S. embassies on three continents, a U.S. military base in Europe, and U.S. cargo ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar. The disclosure came in a nine-page affidavit filed by Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and used by government prosecutors to detail how important the interrogations have become.

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