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CBS followed up with a confusing report on the FBI's assessment of the contemporary terrorist threat. In an Exclusive sitdown by Bob Orr with Philip Mudd, "the top counterterrorism official at the FBI," Orr reported that many operatives being trained by al-Qaeda are "European citizens of Pakistani descent raised in London, Berlin and Madrid" or alternatively people who "look like us." Mudd told Orr that the new bases are no longer paramilitary style camps but offer training for simple tasks like "how do you build a small device to put on a backpack." Then Orr quoted the opposite scenario from Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, that the recruitment was "to train people in weapons of mass destruction."
So, the recruits are either ethnic-Pakistani Europeans--or apparent Americans. And they are trained to make backpack bombs--or to trigger WMDs. Got it.
CBS also announced that a pair of its journalists has gone missing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. They were not identified.
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