subject: Terrorist Attack Mumbai-Style Foiled in Europe [print this page] Although officials are still working to understand the plot, which concerns the fact that the conspirators were modeling their attack on the 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, where a gunman killed more than 200 people in coordinated attacks on hotels and other easily, and former officials said.
Several U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal have not seen as serious a threat as terrorist plot in Europe for many years. "Not just the typical speech in Washington on how the threats have evolved. People are very worried about what they see," said the official terrorism.
The intelligence leads to their arrest has led to security at European airports.
CIA had intensified the drone attacks in Pakistan in an effort to help thwart the plot. The more than 20 strikes this month represent a monthly record, according to a poll by New America Foundation.
"We know that [Al Qaeda] want to attack Europe and the United States," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a statement late Tuesday. "We will continue to work closely with our European allies, the threat of international terrorism, including Al-Qaeda."
Without speaking directly of European intrigue, Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, last week warned of such attacks in public access areas are of great concern.
European governments have not commented on this plot may have been altered, but security officials in Britain said the attacks intensified the Obama administration in Pakistan has disrupted the ability of Al Qaeda in Pakistan planning terrorist attacks west.
The United Kingdom, which has the second largest involvement of foreign troops in Afghanistan after the United States, said the attacks are a matter for the United States and Pakistan.
