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EUROPEAN TERROR ALERT | The Obama administration warned Americans to be cautious and aware of their surroundings while traveling to Europe. The U.S., along with several other countries, issued travel alerts to tourists after a suspected terror plot was uncovered by European officials. Jeffrey Brown talks to Ambassador Daniel Benjamin ...
... time.The real question is whether we continue to receive information that suggests that it needs to be maintained.And that, of course, is something that we will be watching very closely. JEFFREY BROWN: All right, Daniel Benjamin at the State Department, thank you very much.DANIEL BENJAMIN: My pleasure.
RAY SUAREZ: What exactly does the National Intelligence Estimate say about Iraq and terrorism? In response to the ongoing controversy, a small portion of the report, called "key judgments," was declassified by the president last night.We'll take up four of its findings with two analysts. Daniel Benjamin was ...
... Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College. He's written widely on jihadist movements and terrorism, and he joins us from Copenhagen, Denmark.And Daniel Benjamin, a former director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council staff under President Clinton, he's co-author of the book, "The Age ...
DANIEL BENJAMIN: No, I have to say I'm rather skeptical about our prospects in Iraq right now. And I'm also skeptical that we are going to see the kind of diminution or the destruction of the terrorist threat anytime soon. Even if the process goes as well as ...
... s a lot more than that to grapple with. JIM LEHRER: On the specific threat of al-Qaida to targets in the United States, Dan Benjamin, how would you read that as we speak tonight? DANIEL BENJAMIN: Well, of course this is the $64,000 question. And it's very ...
... question of how strongly the administration has tried to leave Americans with the impression there was a connection between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks? DANIEL BENJAMIN: I think the administration pursued a well thought out strategy of associating the two at virtually every opportunity. There was a reason why ...
... I do think terrorists are having a harder time attacking in America now, and that may be reflected in this report, but there is a lot of terrorism going on against the U.S. and its allies around the world. MARGARET WARNER: Daniel Benjamin, thank you. DANIEL BENJAMIN: Thank you.
... that serious and it was only 9/11 that made it something we had to deal with immediately. RAY SUAREZ: Right up until Sept. 10 Daniel Benjamin was the Bush administration still using the diplomatic front to address this? DANIEL BENJAMIN: Actually at the time the diplomatic front was fairly ...
... uniquely vulnerable or are these countries equally vulnerable? And what effect do you think that will have on the way the governments approach fighting terror? DANIEL BENJAMIN: Well, in terms of fighting al-Qaida, I don't think it's going to have anything but positive impact in the sense ...
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