Washington - Fresh terror attacks on the US are likely and the threat of such strikes could increase as the United States retaliates for the aerial assaults on New York and Washington, the US Attorney General, Mr John Ashcroft, said yesterday.
"We believe there are substantial risks of terrorism still in the United States of America. As we as a nation respond to what has happened to us, those risks may in fact go up," Mr Ashcroft said.
"Would-be attackers - linked to the hijackers who crashed planes into US landmarks - may be in America to unleash further strikes that they plotted before the September 11th strikes," he said. "There is a clear, present danger to Americans -- not one that should stop us from living our lives but one that should make us alert. "