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...officials urged the administration to lower the latest terror threat level from Orange to Yellow on grounds that current intelligence contains no concrete information about active operations or specific terror targets. CIA analysts' warnings that attacks might take place around Feb. 14 to coincide with the end of the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites, had gone unrealized. Bureau officials worried about the alert's corrosive effects on local law enforcement agencies, already stretched well beyond their budgets, as officers were forced by the heightened alert level to work even longer hours. FBI officials were also...
...cells charged with executing them. But U.S. officials told TIME that earlier this month Mueller and other top officials received credible intelligence that al-Qaeda had an attack--or multiple attacks--set to begin at some point last week, perhaps to coincide with the end of the hajj, the five-day Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Officials say the intelligence specifically mentioned that the likely targets were New York City and Washington...
...people were trampled to death when 2 million pilgrims gathered for the annual Muslim Hajj in Saudi Arabia...
...bomb ripped through a social club in the Colombian capital, killing at least 30 people and raising fears that leftist rebels were fulfilling a pledge to attack the country's élite. Mecca Saudi officials vowed to use "an iron fist" against any terrorists who try to disrupt the hajj, the annual five-day pilgrimage to Islam's holiest city, below...
Friday, Americans were confronted with unsettling news: the government's terror alert level rose from yellow (elevated) to orange (high) for the first time since September 2002. Officials theorize the "spike" in suspicious communications may be linked to the start of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, or to discussions of an attack on Iraq. And while the change in hue did not prompt fears to rival the jittery heights of fall 2001, the announcement did prompt a bit more worry in an already nervous nation...