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Show Page A8 THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Sunday, May 19, 2002 11 CHATTER attacks. But all sides agree from a single source, and it's that the government needs to very difficult sometimes to improve its ability to sort assess both the reliability of through the mountain of raw the information and its what kind of intelligence it receives and provenance are going to attack Americountry's intel- cans; another ligence agent gets wind of a plot to assassinate the American ambassador, a U.S. busiabout threats against Amerwhat is most authoritativeness there is to nessman sees someone who ican targets come in every pull together a concept it" looks suspicious taking picimportant year. The vast majority, says known as fusion. L. Paul Bremer, of his company's office tures Defense Secretary Donald for counterter-rorisThe intelligence authorizain Frankfurt, Germany. H. Rumsfeld, "tend to be tion bill passed by Congress "You've got to figure out during the Reagan eventually discounted as not in December calls for building administration, recalls com- what to make of it all," says being valid, or, at the mini- up the government's ability to ing in to work every morning Bremer. "It's damn hard." mum, not being actionable." analyze intelligence, increas- to a stack of intelligence Sometimes, simply a big Often, intelligence experts ing the portion of the data reports that might be 8 inchincrease in the sheer volume that actually gets analyzed es tall. of intelligence chatter is a say, there is no specific warn"And by the end of the day " clue that something big is ing of the most deadly and turning it into more usehe adds, "I would've gone afoot and that extra precauful information. attacks. "You just get a river of this through at least that much tions are warranted. That There is great debate in still does not provide the kind Washington about whether stuff every day," said former again. The types of reports that of specific information often the Bush administration CIA Director Robert Gates. should have known and done "Most of it is uncorroboratmight come in: Someone in a needed to avert an attack. more in advance of the Sept. ed," he added. Iost of it is bar is overheard saying they In the months before the Continued from A 1 ambassa-dor-at-lar- ge m INDIA "Efforts should be made to reduce tension, and Pakistan ... will continue to strive to resolve all issues with India through peaceful negotiations and through peaceful means." Continued from A 1 Tuesday's attack killed 34 people, most of them the wives and children of soldiers. India said it was carried out by two militant Muslim groups based in Pakistan. India's External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said that as New Delhi no longer had an ambassador in Islamabad, the Pakistani ambassador would have to leave. "For the sake of parity of representation between the two countries," he told reporters, the ambassador would be required to return to Islamabad. India withdrew its ambassador from Pakistan in December after an attack on its Parliament in New Delhi. ambassador Pakistan's remained in the Indian capital, even though the Indian government refused to meet with him. The two countries still have fully functioning embassies, though their staffs have been reduced in recent months. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, the United States had multiple warnings about a possible attack, said Gates, CIA director from 1991 to 1993. "Everybody knew something was coming, but you didn t know when and you didn't know how" Gates said. There's a certain parallel to what happened on September 11. Even as disciplined a group as the Marines could only stay on the highest alert for so long." The bombing killed 241 Marine, Navy and Army personnel. was Bush President advised in the summer of terrorists 2001 that wanted to hijack planes, and there were FBI reports raisArab men ing concerns about around training flight taking administhe but the country, tration says there was no way to act to prevent the Sept 11 attacks. The two key questons about any intelligence report are its credibility and specificity. In assessing credibility, intelligence analysts must consider whether the source really had access to the type of information being prodded, what the source's motives are, whether the source kas been truthful in the past and whether the information can be corroborated. " . 6esif jjow deserve fie Aziz Ahmad Khan, Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman India and Pakistan. "Efforts should be made to reduce tension, and Pakistan, despite this action of India, which has disappointed us, will continue to strive to resolve all issues with India through peaceful negotiations and through peaceful means," said Aziz Ahmad Khan, a spokesman for Pakistan's foreign ministry. The United States and other allies are worried war could be imminent. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca visited both countries earlier in the week, urging restraint and the resumption of dialogue. A million troops, along with tanks and heavy guns, are on alert along the fronPakistan responded tier following the Parliament indignantly, saying India's attack five months ago. Both decision to expel its envoy countries have nuclear arms. would only lead to more ten- They have also halted flights sion. The Himalayan region and train service. has been at the root of two Analysts in India said the of the three wars fought by crisis is the worst since an border conflict in the Kargil sector of Kashmir in 1999. The Indian army said hundreds of Pakistani soldiers had crossed the cease-fir- e line that divides Kashmir between the two countries and occupied Indian military posts along the Himalayan ridge. "We're facing probably the most severe crisis since Kargil. The Indian public and the strategic community are agreed that Pakistan has to be made to pay for such behavior," said roguish Amitabh Mattoo, a member of India's National Security Advisory Board. India accuses Islamabad of sponsoring Pakistan-base- d Islamic militants. 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