"Diverd4777" wrote in message
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http://www-cgi.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/as...9/terror.wrap/

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The effort by U.S. officials to justify
raising
the terror alert level last week may have shut down an important
source of
information that has already led to a series of al Qaeda arrests,
Pakistani
intelligence sources have said.

Explain to me -again- why "U.S. officials" felt that they had to
"justify raising the terror alert level." You seem to be having a
hard time answering that one. Perhaps Soames123 might be able to
help.