- Making News: New al Qaeda Activity is Major Factor in Alert
Soon after the terror alert at East Coast financial centers, came the revelation that it was based on four-year old computer entries. Now, officials talk of a -second stream- of confirming intelligence information, but won-t say more. Even members of Congressional Intelligence Committees say Americans have a right to be confused, even skeptical. Brian Jenkins, founder of the terrorism research program at Rand, considers the atmosphere of terror. - Reporter's Notebook: Corporate America and the Security Alert
This week-s terror alert was designed to protect American financial centers from another attack like the one that brought down the World Trade Center on September 11. Tomorrow-s edition of BusinessWeek magazine reports that, while Wall Street has been buttoned down, there-s another story for businesses outside New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Paul Magnusson calls it -alert fatigue.-
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