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Al Qaeda planners are lying in wait, plotting another major attack on U.S. soil involving weapons of mass destruction, according to a dire new report. Osama bin Laden's terror network continues to work toward acquiring large-scale biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, sais Mowatt-Larssen, who led the U.S.'s probe into whether or not Al Qaeda had aquired WMDs in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
Former high-ranking CIA official Rolf Mowatt-Larssen reported in a paper for Harvard's Kennedy School that al Qaeda operatives are desperate to launch the most devastating terror attack yet.
"We have done things that have made the country safer," ... "But we have to ask ourselves does that mean they can't mount another attack like 9/11 with 19 core, well-trained terrorists?
"It doesn't require a giant organization to pull off a spectacular terrorist attack like that. We have to be careful that we don't become complacent."
One of the motivations for his report, Mowatt-Larssen said, was the concern that government officials were getting too bogged down in focusing on the potential for smaller scale terrorist attacks like individual suicide bombers or plots to bring down a single aircraft.
"Just like a football coach that might say, 'We're never going to fumble, we're never going to have an interception,' well that's not going to last long," he said. "In the war on terror, we're going to have to -- as hard as it is for people to hear this message -- we're going to have to get used to making risk management decisions that means we're not going to stop everything.
"But the important thing, the most important thing, is stopping the next 9/11."
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