Al-Shabab said it had advance warning of the attack and Mr Allex - a codename for the French intelligence agent - was not in Bulo Marer at the time.
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Al-Shabab says it had advance warning of the attack.
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An IP reputation service, once the NASDAQ site had been identified as compromised through either publication or detection by continual IPS reputation evaluation, would have given system administrators early warning of the attack.
We wouldn't want to be -- the phrase was that we wouldn't want the warning of an attack to be a mushroom cloud, so the argument was we had to attack because the threat was real, but it turned out the threat wasn't real.
In a crisis, the temptation would always be to hold these missiles on a hair trigger, to be launched on warning of an incoming attack rather than lost to an enemy strike.
Meanwhile, Mumbai's police chief said Tuesday that he never received a warning of an impending seaborne attack on his city.
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He says the NSA sent out a warning of a possible PLO attack, based on shortwave intercepts, that was inexplicably downgraded by the State Department.
There is also John Deutch, who, as director of central intelligence for President Clinton, famously kept classified materials on an unsecure home computer and, who, as Michael Ledeen will report in his forthcoming book The War Against the Terror Masters, deliberately changed the CIAs priorities so that warning of a potential surprise attack on America was no longer among them.
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The US is establishing a sophisticated computer system to provide early warning of a bio-terror attack on the country, it is reported.
But even with all of these reforms the counterterrorism system continues to miss the kind of warning signs that take on great significance in the wake of an attack.
The proximity of its adversaries means that such attack is entirely possible with the barest of warning.
Stubby, as the dog became known, comforted the wounded and was devoted to his comrades, warning them at one point of a gas attack and giving them time to don their gas masks.
However, the ones caught in Thursday's attacks were there in defiance of an official Israeli warning against travel to Egypt because of a "concrete" threat of terrorist attack.
Posters warning people they could face a prison sentence if they attack members of staff will be placed in ambulances and hospitals.
New York has been on "orange" alert, or the second-highest level -- indicating a high risk of terror attack -- since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In the past, the government has been criticized by some local officials and police agencies for warning of potential terrorist threats absent any specific information about the location or type of attack believed possible.
The group (whose UK co-chair is the former Defence and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind) also argues that removing them from combat bases would greatly increase early warning and decision time, and therefore reduce any remaining concern of a sudden nuclear attack.
They are believed to be investigating whether there is any link between the attacks and a warning issued by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo last week of a possible terrorist attack.
It used to be the mission of detecting ballistic missile attack against the United States....The warning function that we have relied on for theater applications, on other means, is now being done to a very large extent through space assets.
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Current U.S. strategy calls for riding out a nuclear attack if necessary, which reduces the danger of having to launch on warning before all the facts are known but increases the danger of being caught on the ground in a surprise attack.
Commission members, victims' families and legislators are warning that a failure to act quickly on these prescriptions will translate not only into unnecessary risk of attack, but grave political repercussions.
Sources tell CNN there is no indication that the Taliban will change their decision despite a delegation of Pakistani envoys warning them Monday that if they did not turn bin Laden over they risked attack by U.S. forces.
Among the possible reasons: The site could have held missiles from Iran destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon, the attack could have been a warm-up or a warning for a possible Israeli attack on Iran, or the Israelis believe there was some kind of nuclear cooperation underway between North Korea and Syria.
The Ministry of Interior said that police had come under attack from a hostile crowd and had fired warning shots in the air before firing the lethal blast.
Yet in a world of lethal weapons, where annihilation could come without warning at a press of a nuclear button, it is unreasonable to expect a country to wait until an attack is imminent.
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