(New York Times) - Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet told a Congressional panel Thursday, "The threat environment we find ourselves in today is as bad as it was last summer, the summer before Sept. 11....It is serious, they've reconstituted, they are coming after us, they want to execute attacks....They intend to strike again." Tenet also revealed that when an associate of bin Laden suggested attacking the World Trade Center with small aircraft packed with explosives, it was bin Laden himself who "suggested using even larger planes."
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