CIA Insights on Terrorist Threats

Pause to mark the fifth anniversary

of the nine eleven attacks.

The information that the Central Intelligence Agency has obtained by

questioning

men like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

has provided valuable information and has helped disrupt terrorist

plots, including strikes within the United

States.

For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the

design of planned attacks on

buildings inside the US and how operatives, uh, were directed to

carry them out.

That is valuable information

for those of us

who have the responsibility to protect the American people.

He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure

that the explosives went

off at a high p-- a point that was high enough to prevent

people trapped above from

escaping.

He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure

that the explosives went

off at a high p-- a point that was high enough to prevent

people trapped above from

escaping.

The explosives