CIA Says Al-Qaida Remains Serious Threat to US

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CIA Says Al-Qaida Remains Serious Threat to US

George Tenet, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, said here on Wednesday that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida remains the most immediate and serious threat to America.

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George Tenet, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, said here on Wednesday that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida remains the most immediate and serious threat to America.

"I must repeat, al-Qaida has not yet been destroyed," Tenet said in his first public testimony in Congress since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

He told a Senate committee that terrorists have considered attacks in the U.S. against high-profile government or private facilities, famous landmarks and airports, bridges, harbors and dams.

High-profile events such as the Olympics or last weekend's Super Bowl are also targets of terrorists, he added.

Tenet told lawmakers that documents recovered by U.S. forces inside Afghanistan showed that bin Laden was pursuing "a sophisticated biological weapons research program."

Nearly 1,000 al-Qaida operatives in more than 60 countries have been arrested since the U.S.-led war on terrorism started in last October.

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