Terror Threat Focus Is on Car and Truck Bombs

August 1, 2004

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Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said on Sunday that federal authorities believed terrorist plotters were conducting intense surveillance intending to destroy a large financial institution using a car or truck bomb, the most reliable and still one of the most deadly weapons in Al Qaeda’s improvised arsenal.

Mr. Ridge said analysts had determined that whoever was behind the scouting operations planned to use a bomb-laden vehicle.

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