Security Report Sees Active Terror Threat.

In a homeland security strategy released Tuesday, the Bush administration warned that help from U.S. allies and the public is needed to thwart an attack on American soil being planned by a reconstituted Al Qaeda.

Frances Fragos Townsend, assistant to the president for counter-terrorism and homeland security, said Osama bin Laden's terrorist network continues to plot, recruit and organize from a haven in lawless tribal regions of Pakistan. Townsend said Al Qaeda is intent on infiltrating the United States to launch attacks, possibly with weapons of mass destruction. [...]

"They are really trying to move the ball in the last few minutes of the last quarter of their administration, when it is a really hard ball to move. They have a number of huge challenges that they have itemized in the document," said David Heyman, director of the Homeland Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has led a number of government studies on the subject.

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