美国被匪共赤化了吧？@bbcchinese: 简讯：奥巴马称预算赤字无法维持: 奥巴马总统表示，美国目前面临着无法维持的预算赤字，必须要认真处理这个问题。 http://bbc.in/9K90Ty
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Strikes on region known to be base for training terrorists follow fresh warnings by the US and UK of terror attacks
American missiles fired from an umanned drone killed eight militants of German nationality in northwest Pakistan, a region known to be a base for training terrorists, it was reported tonight. They were killed when two missiles from a suspected CIA pilotless aircraft hit a mosque in Mirali in North Waziristan, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
The strikes follow fresh warnings of terror attacks by the US and UK and reports that an Afghan-born German, Ahmad Sidiqi, said to be one of Germany's most dangerous "homegrown terrorists", supplied intelligence during interrogation by the US at Bagram jail outside Kabul. According to German media, Sidiqi, who attended the same mosque in Hamburg as some 9/11 attackers, told the Americans of plans to launch a series of spectacular attacks in Europe, with Britain and France named as possible targets.
British counter-terrorism officials said there was "credible evidence" that al-Qaida sympathisers were plotting attacks in Europe, but they played down the significance of warnings issued by the UK and US over the weekend for travellers to France and Germany.
Two separate but coinciding intelligence assessments of possible terror attacks triggered this weekend's travel alarms, senior European sources said today. The US told European capitals and EU headquarters in Brussels that al-Qaida was preparing co-ordinated strikes in various European countries. At the same time, French intelligence raised the alarm about attacks allegedly being planned in Europe by AQIM, or al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, which is now believed in EU capitals to be a graver threat than Osama bin Laden.
The US was said to have supplied the German authorities with "very precise information" on targets, which may explain why US TV networks in recent days have been naming targets in Berlin very specifically: the Adlon Hotel by the Brandenburg Gate, the gleaming central railway station opposite the German chancellery, and the soaring TV tower on Alexanderplatz in the very heart of the city.
German officials remained relatively sanguine today about the nature of the threats and the quality of the intelligence. Thomas de Maiziere, the interior minister, said there was "a high abstract risk" of a terror attack in Germany.
British government concerns were heightened recently as intelligence suggesting such attacks were being plotted was gathered from communications intercepts. GCHQ, the National Security Agency in the US and other electronic eavesdropping agencies are increasing their activities along the Afghan-Pakistan borders.
They have intercepted a growing number of voices of European citizens or residents, counter-terrorism officials and independent analysts suggest. Reports of information from the intercepts, indicating attacks on European targets were being plotted, were leaked to the US media last week.
Security assessments from Paris and Washington were received by European capitals a month ago, the sources said, raising questions as to why the US and British authorities went public with their travel warnings only this weekend.
British officials said Sunday's warning from the state department was not based on any fresh intelligence but was the result of Washington's concern to get the US and Europeans to speak with one voice. Sweden increased its terror-threat warning on Friday, the day an audio message was placed on Islamic websites purporting to come from Bin Laden, expressing general concern about the floods in Pakistan.
While European officials are taking the US and British alerts seriously, there is speculation among people familiar with the intelligence material about the reasons for the timing of the alarms. "The threat was real, obviously, and it's not over," said a European source. "But why it's been put on the market in this way is a different issue."
Various reasons are being suggested: that at a time of austerity and budget cuts across the west, the terror alert could furnish strong arguments for shoring up intelligence and security funding; at a time when the EU and Washington are negotiating counter-terrorism measures, the anxiety over renewed terrorism will reinforce US demands for more intrusive information from the Europeans; and that at a time when European governments are keen to extract themselves from what they increasingly perceive as a lost military cause in Afghanistan, a terror panic could strengthen the case for staying.
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