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The information is part of a recent surge in counterterrorism intelligence that led the Bush administration to raise the terror threat status on Sunday from "elevated" to "high".
Earlier on Tuesday, David Cameron said the government did not think it necessary to raise the terror threat level in the UK from severe, which means an attack is "highly likely", to critical, which suggests an imminent threat.
Today, American counterterrorism officials said Mr. Mohammed was in part responsible for the government's decision last month to raise the terror alert level from yellow to orange -- a heightened alert that has since been rescinded.
A day after senior White House officials said the decision to raise the terror alert level on Sunday had been driven in part by new intelligence beyond the information about specific buildings in the United States, the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, told reporters that "there are some ongoing operations under way" to disrupt terrorist activity.
If they do not raise the terror alert, then McCain fades into irrelevancy.
According to US New & World Report, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge reveals new in his new book details on the politicization under President Bush, which includes Ridge's assertion that he was pressured to raise the terror alert to help Bush win re-election in 2004.
The criticism only intensified after he announced a decision to raise the terror-alert level last Sunday.
In the Netherlands, officials have raised the terror threat level there to "substantial" - partly over concerns about radicalised citizens returning from Syria.
Claude Guéant, the interior minister, has raised the terror alert to its highest level.
Tom Ridge and the Department of Homeland Security raised the terror alert to orange for the holidays; nothing happened.
ON DECEMBER 21st, just in time for the seasonal festivities, the Bush administration raised the terror alert a notch from "elevated" to "high".
