CIA Director Mr George Tenet, in his first public appearance before Congress since the September 11th attacks, said today Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and other groups had further plans to attack America.
He said operations against US targets could also be launched by al-Qaeda cells already in place in major cities in Europe and the Middle East and that the network could exploit its connections to other groups in countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Al-Qaeda also has plans to strike against US and allied targets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, Tenet said in testimony prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"American diplomatic and military installations are at high risk -- especially in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey but across the rest of the world as well," he said.
He said the September 11th attacks suggested that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups would continue to use conventional weapons. But he said al-Qaeda was working to acquire some of the most dangerous chemical agents and toxins and documents recovered from Afghanistan showed that bin Laden was pursuing a sophisticated biological weapons research program.