That very morning, CIA chief George Tenet told a Senate Committee that nothing had changed. When Osama bin Laden speaks, people and things blow up. As the New York Times reported:
“Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that he did not know if the latest message amounted to a call to arms, and was thus a prelude to a terror attack.
“But the director noted that two previous messages last autumn were followed by attacks soon afterward. One was on a French oil tanker. Another killed a United States marine in Kuwait. In a third, a bomb destroyed a Bali nightclub popular with Westerners, leaving nearly 200 dead. And in a fourth attack, a bomb exploded in a Kenya hotel, killing 3 Israeli tourists and 10 Kenyans.”
"So one of the things we're looking at is, he's obviously raising the confidence of his people," Tenet continued. "He's obviously exhorting them to do more."
Exhortations magnified by the Great Satan, itself.
“Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that he did not know if the latest message amounted to a call to arms, and was thus a prelude to a terror attack.
“But the director noted that two previous messages last autumn were followed by attacks soon afterward. One was on a French oil tanker. Another killed a United States marine in Kuwait. In a third, a bomb destroyed a Bali nightclub popular with Westerners, leaving nearly 200 dead. And in a fourth attack, a bomb exploded in a Kenya hotel, killing 3 Israeli tourists and 10 Kenyans.”
"So one of the things we're looking at is, he's obviously raising the confidence of his people," Tenet continued. "He's obviously exhorting them to do more."
Exhortations magnified by the Great Satan, itself.