NEW YORK - American and Pakistani authorities fear a 'second string' of Al-Qaeda leaders is plotting a major new attack after a terrorist summit in Pakistan, Time magazine reported.
Some United States officials fear the meeting could have been a key planning session ahead of a major attack, similar to the way a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was ahead of the Sept 11 terror attacks in the US.
'The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert came here and went back,' Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told the magazine, 'all this was extremely significant.'
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KUALA LUMPUR - Firefighters rushed to the US Embassy in Malaysia on Monday after the building received an envelope containing an 'unidentified substance', officials said.
Tests would be conducted on the letter, but until results were returned, it was unknown if the envelope contained any dangerous substances, said embassy spokesman Frank Whitaker.
'An envelope addressed to the US embassy arrived earlier this morning,' Mr Whitaker told The Associated Press. 'An embassy staff opened the envelope to find an unidentified substance.'
A team from the Fire Department's Hazardous Materials unit was called to inspect the letter, he said, adding the embassy would not be closed and operations have resumed normally.
'All appropriate action is being taken,' he said.
Mr Whitaker declined to say whether the envelope was mailed to the embassy or dropped off there. -- AP
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