World News 12-10-2001 More Terror Attacks "In A Few Days" who: FBI what: Says US should prepare for more terror attacks soon where: Washington DC when: Yesterday snippet: "In a stark warning, the FBI said on Thursday it has received information there may be additional terrorist attacks inside the United States or abroad in the next several days," reports The Independent. Without specifying and targets either in the United States or abroad, investigators said the evidence was "very real", reports The Guardian. "Last Tuesday, FBI and CIA officials warned a congressional intelligence committee that there was a `100% chance` of more terrorist incidents once military operations began in Afghanistan," writes Julian Borger. "Bombing has been under way for five days and, according to the Taliban militia, more than 200 people have been killed." The Times says that a ground assault on Kabul is imminent after Northern Alliance commanders said they expected "to move on the city within days" with aerial assistance from the US. Chief of defence staff Admiral Sir Michael Boyce tells The Guardian that the intensive bombing will have had a "huge psychological effect" which may well flush Osama bin Laden out of hiding. Elsewhere, the paper notes that American B52s are dropping cluster bombs, "which scatter about 150 small `bomblets` over a large area and whose use has been condemned by the Red Cross." Meanwhile, at a remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon, president Bush said yesterday he felt his presidency "began the moment we were attacked". But The Telegraph notes that the leadership which has won him an incredible 90% approval rating is the polar opposite of the reduction in "big government" he promised in his campaign. "Mr Bush is now presiding over a federal expansion, with the nationalisation of airport security, financial packages to the airlines and an increase in government surveillance," writes Toby Harnden. [... more]

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