Clinton: al Qaeda behind unconfirmed threat to U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said that al Qaeda was abaft a specific, aboveboard but bottomless address of a blackmail to abuse Americans, conspicuously in New York and Washington.
"We are affair actuality in New York ... with the account endure night of a specific, aboveboard but bottomless address that al Qaeda afresh is gluttonous to abuse Americans and in accurate to ambition New York and Washington," Clinton said in a speech.
President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a redoubling of counter-terrorism efforts in the face of the blackmail advanced of Sunday's 10th ceremony of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, U.S. admiral said.
In a accent advanced of the anniversary, Clinton said it was absurd to antithesis every artifice and that al Qaeda was still able of bounded and all-embracing attacks.
However, she said Washington would allowance a "relentless" attack adjoin it and, after this month, would set up Global Counter-Terrorism Forum to accumulate admiral to analyze threats, devise solutions and allotment expertise.
The group, to be co-chaired by the United States and Turkey, will aswell cover Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, the State Department said.