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...original version of this article incorrectly stated that the total cost for the government's TOPOFF4 counterterror exercise was $25 million this year. In fact, that figure includes the cost for all of the pre-exercise planning and post-exercise analysis that takes place over a two-year period...
...information tracked that contained in a Homeland Security bulletin made public in March 2005. Frances Townsend, the White House counterterror boss, said the information was declassified because all the players and sources associated with the information have been tracked down or killed. Asked about bin Laden's status, Townsend said, "I don't imagine he is very comfortable...
...officials say there's no reason to believe that these groups are united or are taking orders from al-Qaeda - at least, not yet. "Infrequent contacts between groups have occurred, and limited exchanges of help provided, but there's no sign of operational coordination or integration," said a French counterterror official after the April 11 bombing in Algiers that killed 300 and injured over 300. Pointing to a recent flurry of botched suicide attacks in Morocco that left six militants dead, the official notes that "enormous police pressure in both countries is making plotting local strikes hard enough. Trying...
...resignation, it was hard to imagine the ferocity of the confrontations that, only days earlier, had turned Norrebro and other Copenhagen neighborhoods into a battleground between police and young anarchists, reinforced by supporters from all over northern Europe. The unrest began early last Thursday morning when helicopter-borne Danish counterterror police raided the building, evicting and detaining its sleepy occupants. They were acting on a court order obtained by a Christian group that had purchased the building from the local authorities in 2000 - but could not occupy it when left-wing activists, who had squatted there since the 1980s, denounced...
...with psychological operations and civil projects, such as building water wells and providing veterinary services, in several countries in the region for a number of years. The CENTCOM base in the tiny country of Djibouti - from which the gunship raid was staged - has become an important focus of regional counterterror efforts. Units based there have also played a central role in helping train the Ethiopian army, which last week swept across Somalia and scattered the Islamist militias that had taken control of much of the country. The central government had appealed for international support by arguing that its Islamist enemies...