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Friday, February 28, 2003
NEWS
THE BATTALION
Crunch time
Joshua Hobson • THE BATTALION
Junior civil engineering major Sean Powers (left)
and junior ocean engineering major Jeremy
Young (right) undergo a physical fitness test
given by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer
Wassermann (center) at Brothers Pond Park in
College Station Thursday afternoon. Both are
entering the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Officer
Candidate Program.
Terror alert level lowered
By John J. Lumpkin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration
lowered the national terror alert Thursday from
orange to yellow, suggesting the immediate threat of
an attack on U.S. soil had eased. Still, Americans
warned to
were
“continue to be defi
ant and alert.”
Counterterrorism
officials said al-
Qaida remains capa
ble of attacking, and
they cautioned peo
ple not to think the
threat had passed.
“Al-Qaida will
wait until it believes
Americans are less
vigilant and less pre
pared before it will
strike again,”
Attorney General
John Ashcroft and
Homeland Security
Secretary Tom Ridge
said in a joint state
ment.
The conclusion of
the Muslim hajj holi
day period played a
role in the decision to
lower the threat level
from orange, the sec
ond-highest level on
the five-part scale,
said Ashcroft and
Ridge.
Counterterrorism
officials had noted
gests a significant risk of terrorist attacks,
orange alert is a step higher and means there,W
high risk of an attack. The highest alert level,
activated since the system was instituted lastyeaiis
red.
The level was raised to orange on Feb.
prompting the government and businesses lo
impose extra security measures at buildings, uti
and other key ii
Terror alert warning returns to yellow
The Bush administration on Thursday lowered the national terror
alert from orange to yellow, suggesting the threat of an imminent
terrorist attack on U.S. soil has eased somewhat.
► Assign emergency
response personnel and
preposition specially
trained teams
► Close public and
government facilities
► Monitor, redirect or
constrain transportation
systems
► Increase or redirect
personnel to address
critical emergency needs
High
condition
► Coordinate necessary
security efforts with armed
forces or law enforcement
agencies
► Take additional
precaution at public events
► Prepare to work at an
alternate site or with a
dispersed work force.
► Restrict access to
essential personnel only
Elevated
condition
► Increase surveillance of
critical locations
► Coordinate emergency
plans with nearby
jurisdictions
► Assess further
refinement of protective
Guarded
condition
► Check communications
with designated
emergency response or
command locations
► Review and update
► Refine and exercise
planned protective
measures
Low condition ► Ensure emergency
intelligence informa- SOURCE: The Office of Homeland Security
tion pointing toward
a possible attack around the time of the holiday,
which is in early and mid-February.
Other, unspecified intelligence suggested that the
threat of imminent attack has abated to a degree,
officials said.
The two Cabinet secretaries said that lowering
the alert status “is only an indication that some of
the extra protective measures enacted by govern
ment and the private sector may be reduced at this
time.”
A yellow, or elevated, alert is the third-highest
alert on a five-step scale. It means intelligence sug-
alert
structure sites,
A senior
official, bri
reporters on o
tion of anonymit) 1
said despite
uncertainties
trusting terronsm-
related ii
gence, the admiii
(ration prefers to
err on the side
caution.
Indeed, the f
is circulating ane*
bulletin to I
and state
enforcement a
cies this v
warning that
Qaida operative
plotting -US.
attacks might utf
surveillance
niques n
from hidden cam
eras to phony beg
gars.
Law enforce
ment, intelligence
and
security
debated for days
about the
AP time to lower the
status as communications among sus]
measures within the
context of the current threat
information
► Implement, as
appropriate, contingency
and emergency response
plans
emergency response
procedures
► Provide the public with
necessary information
personnel receive training
► Assess facilities for
vulnerabilities and take
measures to reduce them
terrorists waned and some leads on possible threats
were discredited.
Those discussions were held in the shadow ofa
potential war with Iraq, which would be expected^
increase the risk of terrorist attacks against
Americans. As recently as Monday, Attorney
General John Ashcroft said there were no plans in
lower the national alert level.
Nearly three weeks at orange rattled some peo
ple in a citizenry that has been subject to repeated
dire warnings of imminent al-Qaida terrorism since
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Tapes from Chicago
nightclub deaths
won't be released
CHICAGO (AP) — A grand jury
has subpoenaed documents
related to the stampede at a
Chicago nightclub that killed 21
people and left scores injured,
prosecutors said Thursday.
Prosecutor Patrick Driscoll Jr.
mentioned the subpoena in court
while successfully arguing against
the release of surveillance
footage taken by cameras inside
and outside the nightclub the
night of the stampede.
He said the grand jury needs
time to review documents it sub
poenaed, though he later refused
to discuss the documents with
reporters.
Attorneys representing people
who have filed personal injury or
wrongful death lawsuits since the
Feb. 17 stampede said they wan 1
the footage released so they can
better determine what hap
pened.
But Circuit Judge Diane Larsen
rejected the request until all pan
ties involved in the lawsuits have
had a chance to respond in court
Another judge had barred wide
release of the video after city
attorneys said they showed "sen
ous and tragic scenes" that coulil
upset victims and their families.
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forces for the
northern Iraq a
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anonymity, said
Franks, who wc
a U.S. war in In
decided to give
Franks said in
Press interview
his war plans ai