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Mumbai attack could be replicated: FBI chief
Lalit K Jha
Washington, Feb 24 (PTI) Terming Mumbai terror attacks
as "successful" from the perspective of terrorists, America's
top US intelligence official has warned that such strikes
could be replicated in the US and other parts of the world.
Warning such attacks could be viewed by terrorists as
a possible way of proceeding in the future, FBI Director
Robert Muller said intelligence and other security agencies
would have to reinvigorate efforts to make certain that we've
done everything we can to prevent such type of attacks.
Delivering a speech on 'Global Terrorism: The FBI's
Role', Muller said the Mumbai attack, which killed more than
170 people and wounded over 300 was an attack both highly
coordinated and deceptively simple in its execution.
Muller, who took over the FBI just days before
September 11, 2001, said the Mumbai attack had displayed the
"terrorists with large agendas and little money can use
rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact."
"It again raises the question of whether a similar
attack could happen in Seattle, San Diego, Miami or
Manhattan," he said.
Muller said although al-Qaeda remains a threat to the
US and worldwide, security planners "must also focus on les
well known terrorists groups as well as home grown
terrorists".
The FBI chief warned "terrorist could be merely
e-tickets away from the US".
The US, Muller said, is concerned with people and
groups around the world that identified with al-Qaeda and its
ideology.
He said Mumbai attacks had brought to the fore the
need for better coordination and cooperation among
intelligence and security agencies of major countries like US,
India, Pakistan, UK and others.
Responding to a question from the audience, Muller
said: "If you look at the attacks over a period of time, you
start with September 11th, and it was box cutters. You didn't
even have weapons when it came to September 11th. Yet you see,
whether it be Fort Dix or Mumbai, the planning that goes into
undertaking such an attack, which was to a certain extent
successful in Mumbai, that does not escape the attention of
those down the road." PTI
Washington, Feb 24 (PTI) Terming Mumbai terror attacks
as "successful" from the perspective of terrorists, America's
top US intelligence official has warned that such strikes
could be replicated in the US and other parts of the world.
Warning such attacks could be viewed by terrorists as
a possible way of proceeding in the future, FBI Director
Robert Muller said intelligence and other security agencies
would have to reinvigorate efforts to make certain that we've
done everything we can to prevent such type of attacks.
Delivering a speech on 'Global Terrorism: The FBI's
Role', Muller said the Mumbai attack, which killed more than
170 people and wounded over 300 was an attack both highly
coordinated and deceptively simple in its execution.
Muller, who took over the FBI just days before
September 11, 2001, said the Mumbai attack had displayed the
"terrorists with large agendas and little money can use
rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact."
"It again raises the question of whether a similar
attack could happen in Seattle, San Diego, Miami or
Manhattan," he said.
Muller said although al-Qaeda remains a threat to the
US and worldwide, security planners "must also focus on les
well known terrorists groups as well as home grown
terrorists".
The FBI chief warned "terrorist could be merely
e-tickets away from the US".
The US, Muller said, is concerned with people and
groups around the world that identified with al-Qaeda and its
ideology.
He said Mumbai attacks had brought to the fore the
need for better coordination and cooperation among
intelligence and security agencies of major countries like US,
India, Pakistan, UK and others.
Responding to a question from the audience, Muller
said: "If you look at the attacks over a period of time, you
start with September 11th, and it was box cutters. You didn't
even have weapons when it came to September 11th. Yet you see,
whether it be Fort Dix or Mumbai, the planning that goes into
undertaking such an attack, which was to a certain extent
successful in Mumbai, that does not escape the attention of
those down the road." PTI
