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Congressional Statement
Federal Bureau ©f Investigation

February 24, 2004

TESTIMONY OF
ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
BEFORE THE
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE OF THE
UNITED STATES SENATE

Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Senator Rockefeller, and Members of the Committee. I
appreciate this opportunity to discuss the world threats facing this nation and how the
FBI has adapted to meet emerging threats. I am going to touch on some of the
successes of the past 12 months, but I would like to say, at the outset, that none of these
successes would have been possible without the extraordinary efforts of our partners in
state and municipal law enforcement and our counterparts around the world. The
Muslim, Iraqi, and Arab-American communities have also contributed a great deal to our
success. On behalf of the FBI, I would like to thank these communities for their
assistance and for their ongoing commitment to preventing acts of terrorism. All of us
understand that the threats we face today, and those we will face tomorrow, can only be
defeated if we work together.

SUCCESSES IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM

In 2003, the United States and its Allies made considerable advances toward defeating
the al-Qa'ida network all over the world. Since this Committee's World Wide Threat
hearing last year, the efforts of the FBI, and our state and local law enforcement
partners, to identify terrorists and dismantle terrorist networks have yielded major
successes:

• In Cincinnati, an al-Qa'ida operative was charged with providing material support

to terrorists.
• In Baltimore, a resident was identified as an al-Qa'ida operative with direct
associations to now detained senior al-Qa'ida operatives Tawfiq Bin Attash and
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
• In Tampa, the U.S. leader of Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and three of his
lieutenants were arrested under the RICO statute for their participation in a
conspiracy which contributed to the deaths of two U.S. citizens in Israel.
• In Newark, three individuals, including an illegal arms dealer, were indicted for
their role in attempting to smuggle an SA-18 shoulder-fire missile system into the
U.S.
• In Minneapolis, an individual who trained in Afghanistan and provided funds to
associates in Pakistan was recently arrested and charged with conspiring to
provide material support to al-Qa'ida.
• And in cities across the country, the FBI, along with our law enforcement partners,
conducted over 10,000 interviews of Iraqi expatriates to seek information in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. These efforts resulted in the generation and
distribution of information that proved valuable to our troops in Iraq, and to our
counterterrorism and counterintelligence programs.

http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress04/mueller022404.htm 2/25/2004
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SPEECHES AND TESTIMONY

The Worldwide Threat 2004: Challenges in a Changing Global Context

Testimony of Director of Central Intelligence
George J. Tenet
before the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

24 February 2004

(as prepared for delivery)

Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice Chairman, Members of the Committee.

Mr. Chairman, last year I described a national security environment that was significantly more
complex than at any time during my tenure as Director of Central Intelligence. The world I will
discuss today is equally, if not more, complicated and fraught with dangers for United States
interests, but one that also holds great opportunity for positive change.

TERRORISM

I'll begin today on terrorism, with a stark bottom-line:

• The al-Qa"ida leadership structure we charted after September 11 is seriously damaged—

but the group remains as committed as ever to attacking the US homeland.
• But as we continue the battle against al-QA'ida, we must overcome a movement—a global
movement infected by al-QA" Ida's radical agenda.
• In this battle we are moving forward in our knowledge of the enemy—his plans, capabilities,
and intentions.
• And what we've learned continues to validate my deepest concern: that this enemy
remains intent on obtaining, and using, catastrophic weapons.

Now let me tell you about the war we've waged against the al-QA"ida organization and its
leadership.

• Military and intelligence operations by the United States and its allies overseas have
degraded the group. Local al-QA"ida cells are forced to make their own decisions because
of disarray in the central leadership.

AI-QAIda depends on leaders who not only direct terrorist attacks but who carry out the day-to-
day tasks that support operations. Over the past 18 months, we have killed or captured key al-
QA'ida leaders in every significant operational area—logistics, planning, finance, training—and
have eroded the key pillars of the organization, such as the leadership in Pakistani urban areas

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